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Good morning.
The digital era is changing warfare dramatically. 聽300 years ago wars were fought largely hand to hand. 聽Even 100 years ago, soldiers would look at their enemies through the sights of a gun. Today鈥檚 targets probably appear increasingly as images on display screens. 聽We鈥檙e told that the United Kingdom has many hundreds of unmanned aircraft that can be flown remotely from an Air Force base in Lincolnshire. 聽The pilots who guide the missiles need never see the people who they are targeting, who may be many thousands of miles away. 聽
On this day 70 years ago, an atomic bomb was used for the first time in warfare. 聽It destroyed five square miles of the city of Hiroshima, and killed between a hundred and a hundred and fifty thousand men women and children. 聽Three days later a second bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands more and forcing the Japanese to admit defeat. 聽
In his Declaration of Surrender a few days later, Emperor Hirohito told his people: 鈥淪hould we continue to fight, it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization.鈥�
I鈥檝e never been a soldier but I do sometimes wonder how the sheer physical and cultural distance between combatants affects their perception of each other鈥檚 humanity. 聽Do our concepts of a 鈥渏ust war鈥� need to be updated in the light of an enemy we can never meet face to face?聽
Loving God, on Hiroshima Day we pray for all those whose lives are touched by war. 聽For those who live with the memories of what they have done, or what has been done to them; For children who grow up hating other children they have never met;We pray once again for peace between enemies, peace between neighbours, and peace between friends. 聽Amen.