'Hiroshima Mon Amour'

It's interesting how the world changed once the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

It changed the way we looked at war, it changed the way we lived, it changed the way we look at the atomic bomb as a weapon.

For years, the world's powers rushed to make their own little atomic bomb like a bunch of hens guarding an egg. Trying to be the first. Once they made it, perfected it and dropped it, everything would go their way.

I honestly think the Americans dropped it and said, "Oh shit, what did we do?" That's precisely why it hasn't been used sense. The political theory behind the power of the atomic bomb has little to do with heat, energy and death as much as it has to do with the idea of heat, energy or death. Had the Nazis made and dropped the bomb before the Americans I doubt very much that the world would've stood in their way much longer and Nazis would not have had any problem dropping it again.

Although we'd like to consider Americans as the psychotic guy in "Dr. Strangelove" straddling the A-bomb like a horse riding it and waving our cowboys hats, and as much as many Americans leaders would like to be perceived this way, high up on the food chain, everyone knows that the A-bomb can never be used again by an established, world leader.

All of this, plus the fact that the movie poster was fantastic.