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Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war 80 years after atom bomb attack
Date: 8/9/2025 Original Source: BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgej5vw0w7o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)
TONY SAYS:
So, this Nagasaki thing, right? Eighty years. Eighty freakin’ years since they dropped that bomb. The mayor, some guy named Suzuki – sounds like a freakin’ car part – he’s givin’ a speech, a peace declaration, he calls it. Can you believe the chutzpah? Eighty years later, and these guys are still cryin’ about it. Like, we should be sorry.
(Takes a sip of espresso, stares intently into the distance)
Look, I’m not sayin’ the whole thing wasn’t a…mess. Seventy-four thousand people, they say. Poof. Gone. Like a bad pizza order. And the after-effects? Leukaemia, radiation sickness… sounds like a goddamn horror movie. Worse than that time Paulie Walnuts got whacked with that rusty pipe. But hey, it's war, right? That’s the cost of business. Sometimes, you gotta take the heat... but I'll be damned if I'm paying for the extra-large peppers.
(Leans forward conspiratorially)
They say this bomb was bigger than the one they dropped on Hiroshima a couple of days earlier – a hundred and forty thousand souls. Jesus H. Christ. That's a whole lotta guidos gone. More than the meatballs at my mother's wedding. Now, that's a shittin' party. And they’re ringing these cathedral bells, for the first time since the whole shebang. They're ringing for peace? What the hell is that? Peace? What do I know about peace?
(Scoffs, then softens slightly)
They had a water ceremony, too. Symbolic, they call it. Eighty years later, pourin’ water to remember the people beggin’ for water while their skin was melting off. It gets ya, you know? Even me. Even I wouldn't be unaffected by that. This Nishioka guy, 93 years old, he was only a couple of miles away. Saw the whole thing. Says even the "lucky" ones started bleedin’ from their gums. Sounds like a bad batch of cannoli.
(Sighs, takes another sip of espresso)
Suzuki’s sayin’ the world’s gettin’ crazy again, on the brink of another nuclear war. He’s beggin’ everyone to stop fightin’. “Force met with force,” he says. Like we don’t know that. It's like he thinks we're a bunch of freakin' Boy Scouts. The guy's got a point, I guess. Maybe he should come to Jersey, and see how much "force met with force" happens when a few wiseguys decide to show respect to a competitor who hasn't shown them the same... respect. These things are cyclical, you know? Human nature and all that stuff. We have our ways, they have their bombs.
(Shrugs)
Fuhgeddaboudit. It's a long story, and the bottom line is you gotta take care of yourself and yours. That’s the only kind of peace that matters around here. And maybe a good gabagool sandwich…now that I’m thinking about it…
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