#213:Hiroshima's Fallout

Yep, back in 1945, Harry Truman authorized the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on this day in history. Three days later he had Nagasaki removed from the face of the earth... except for the rubble, of course. That makes Harry the only world leader so far to actually use nuclear weapons on an enemy, not just threaten to use them. A Democrat from Missouri...the I'll Show You State! in this case...pulled the trigger. Makes you think about the Party's hot air stance on war and the like, if you think about that sort of stuff, of course.

Now, the Japanese Empire broke the Christian Sabbath on December 7, 1941 by bombing Pearl Harbor. The irony is that they failed on all three of their objectives: to eliminate the U.S. carriers, to destroy the oil fields, and to keep the U.S. out of the war...and, now they have the distinction of being the only nation in history to actually have nuclear weapons used against them...assuming you don't count the tests the U.S. has done in our own atmosphere as an attack against ourselves and the Chernobyl meltdown back in '86 in the Ukraine as an attack against themselves!! Oh, fyi..."Chernobyl" means "wormwood" in either Russian or Ukrainian, I forget which...one of the words in the Book of Revelation describing future nasty events when bowls are poured forth, etc.

Now, a Japanese brother pointed out to me that some medical fallout from the bombing of Hiroshima is that the treatment of leukemia was significantly advanced and has benefited millions of people over the last half century as a result of Japanese doctors' work in the field.
It is interesting, too, that the guy who led the raid on Pearl Harbor, Mitsuo Fushima, was given a Christian Gospel tract in Tokyo by an American, Jake DeShazer, who had gotten converted in a Japanese p.o.w. camp when he went down in enemy territory with the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. Fushima then became a premier evangelist in Japan in the late 40s through the 50s.
You just never know how good can come of evil in the providence of the Lord.

I guess Daniel 2:20-22 are a good historical perspective to keep in mind at all times, no matter what the times are, "Daniel answered and said, 'Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power belong to Him. And it is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men, And knowledge to men of understanding. It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, And the light dwells with Him.'"
Got radiation therapy?

Source: Rusten, E. Michael & Sharon. The One Year Book of Christian History. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois, 2003.