I didn't think I was going to get time to write and record another song, but I am reading a book called "Sapiens (A Brief History of Humankind)" by Yuval Noah Harari. It has been a very interesting read with the author challenging many of my most cherished beliefs about our species. Anyway, he mentions that perhaps the most significant date in our history is the day we acquired the destructive power to wipe out life on earth, i.e. the day the first atomic bomb was exploded. The time he gave was so precise that my brain started working overtime. It seemed an opportunity too great to miss to come up with a song for this week that was based on such an exact (to the second) time.
Now I knew the background to the Nuclear Test at Alamogordo, and the subsequent bombing of Japan, thanks to a play I had once been in about Claude Etherley, the pilot of "Straight Flush" the reconnaissance aircraft that stated there was too much cloud over the original target (Kobi, if memory serves) and that one of the secondary targets (Hiroshima) was clear, so photos and film of the bomb could be made. Anyway, with all that in mind, I came up with this song between yesterday and this morning.
I hope you like: