Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing - 'Music for Peace Project - Martha Argerich's creation from the ruins

Must humanity continue this utter destructive madness, insanity, irrationality and erasure of empathy in wars in 2025 ?

Yet in science on 30 September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by a hard-landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. A truly miraculous team effort and an almost inconceivable human achievement

The advances in science and medicine since WW II have been monumental 

How can our moral life and values disintegrate like this without development, being as primitive, cruel and brutal as ever they have been for thousands of years in states of war ? 
How ? Why ? 
Dancing around the Old Testament golden calf ?

Mankind appears to have a self-destructive, inherited  gene built into its blood ...
 

Hiroshima after the bomb 



A wristwatch found in the ruins
(Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)

A silent prayer was held in Japan on Wednesday morning as it marked 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.

Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony on Wednesday, along with officials from around the world and the city's mayor Kazumi Matsui.

Matsui warned of a global "accelerating trend toward military build-up... [and] the idea that nuclear weapons are essential for national defence", saying this was a "flagrant disregard [of] the lessons the international community should have learned from the tragedies of history".

World War Two ended with Japan's surrender after the dropping of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


Martha Argerich playing Chopin on the profoundly moving Akiko's piano that survived the bomb. The beautiful, female young pianist, who was playing Chopin, did not. 

Please read this past post for more details of an extraordinary creative project and experience I was involved with - the Hiroshima  'Music for Peace' project created by 
Martha Argerich




Another watch from the ruins 
(Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)



A child's tricycle from the ruins - read the poignant story in the link above
(Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)

And for the creative musical side of human life

http://www.michael-moran.com/2025/07/duszniki-zdroj-international-chopin.html

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