U.S. Credibility and Lost Bomb
That hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Navy lost off the shores of Okinawa and sunk to a depth of 14,000 feet has alarmed the Japanese population and rightly so. Not because of any imminent explosive disaster, not because of any radiation hazard, not even because of pollution concerns.
What I believe the general population of Japan is really worried about is that this scenario conjures up a myth no one has yet fathomed. Godzilla.
We all tend to brush off the fantasy of our environmental abuses generating new and awful creatures to wreak havoc on us in the name of Mother Nature’s revenge. Let’s just wait and see if Godzilla emerges from the deep, if the Creature From the Exxon Black Lagoon slithers onto shore, and if The Thing falls to the icy earth beneath the holes in our ozone layer.
Just wait and see.
IVAN LADIZINSKY
Marina del Rey
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