I just got out of class and am so disgusted that I came right to the library to write this. In class today, we watched a documentary called, "Radio Bikini." It was about the testing of atom bombs on the island of Bikini Atoll. First of all, the creation of anything that is capable of taking so many lives doesn't make me all to happy (and shouldn't make anyone happy), but there was something in the film that made me even more disgusted and made me stop paying attention.



Before the bombs were dropped for testing, these innocent animals were placed on the island just like that. It absolutely sickened me to have these sweet creatures, whose value in this world is of no greater or lesser importance than ours, were placed there as part of some sick experiment by our government. The footage of the animals after the bomb was dropped was heartbreaking. Their bodies were covered in blisters and burns. I wanted to cry imagining the pain they must have felt when the bomb hit the ground and the radioactive blasts hit them. The worst part is they had to live and suffer. Not all of them were killed.

Why do we live in a world that finds it necessary to create something that can cause so much pain and destruction? Why were those animals chosen to test on? The ignorant humans who believed in creating a weapon that could take so many human lives should have let themselves be tested on. If you value life so little, than lay your own on the line for the sake of creating destruction.



"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
~Dalai Lama