Nuclear Weapons will Steal your face right off of your HEAD...
- Thomas Tittmann
- Aug 4
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 6
On August 6 the world commemorates the first usage of atomic weapons that occurred when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
On August 9 another bomb was detonated on the city of Nagasaki.
PBS Documentary "ATOMIC PEOPLE" airs TONIGHT with more showings this week
Atomic People
8/4/2025 | 1h 25m 48sVideo has Closed Captions | CC
Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, "Atomic People" features a number of voices from some of the only people left on Earth to have survived a nuclear bomb.
08/04/2025 | Expires 11/03/2025 | Rating TV-MA
UPDATED: How to Watch Atomic People
Atomic People is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
PRIME Video (requires starting 7-day free trail of PBS)
Aug. 6, 2025:42nd Annual World Peace Vigil & Community Dedication to Peace - Bellport, LI
Please find a place to join with others who decry the use of these weapons. Here's where I'll be:
Here's one of several posts I've done about these annual reminders:
"Steal your face right off of your head..."
EXTRA REMINDERS...
NOTE: The website for these 2 articles contains more stories - some from survivors - about this horrific tragedy.
DEADHEADS for PEACE
I'll come back later and add to this section. My post title is inspired by lyrics from the Grateful Dead's "He's Gone."
This version of the song belongs in this post because it features CHILDREN...
This next generation of Deadheads hail from Texas's Barton Hills Choir. I've featured them in many posts.
The above article includes this next article's mention of a time Jerry was overcome with emotion as he sang...might want to rename the song "Mourning Dew"...
Morning Dew - a Dead Apocalypse
"Morning Dew", also known as "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew", is a contemporary folk song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bonnie Dobson. The lyrics relate a fictional conversation in a post-nuclear holocaust world.
Background and lyrics
The song is a dialogue between the last man and woman left alive following an apocalyptic catastrophe.[2] Dobson stated that the inspiration for "Morning Dew" was the film On the Beach, which portrayed the survivors of virtual global annihilation by nuclear holocaust. Dobson wrote the song while staying with a friend in Los Angeles; she recalled how the guests at her friend's apartment were speculating about a nuclear war's aftermath and "after everyone went to bed, I sat up and suddenly I just started writing this song [although] I had never written [a song] in my life".[3]
Besides the Grateful Dead version, there are many versions by many artists. I picked these two for their imagery. For example, this image of children recalls that the bomb blast and it's aftermath created many orphans...
The imaginative video for Robert Plant's version reminds me of Joseph and Mary on the way to Bethlehem...
"Bethlehem"...
Meaning
House Of Bread, House Of War
Etymology
From (1) the noun בית (beth), house, and (2) the verb לחם (laham), both to war and to eat.
In the light of these meanings, consider the effects of food blockades in places like Gaza...
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