Kafofin yada labaran Amurka sun taso daga musunta kai tsaye a farkon watan Yuni, sakamakon jinkirin gargadin da manyan jami'an Amurka suka yi cewa yakin nukiliya tsakanin Indiya da Pakistan zai kashe miliyoyin mutane. Sautin ɗaukar labarai ya koma ga ƙararrawa. A halin yanzu, tarihin atomic ya kasance mai tsabta sosai.
"Ko da wani mataki na soja da ɗaya daga cikin waɗannan maƙwabta masu makamin nukiliya suka yi," in ji shafin farko na USA Today a babban nau'i, "zai iya tayar da wani matakin da ba za a iya dakatar da shi ba wanda zai iya haifar da kisan kiyashi da duniya ke tsoro tun lokacin da aka ƙera bam ɗin nukiliya." Buga na Newsweek na Yuni 10 ya haɗa da shafi na George Will tare da yin tsokaci game da rikicin makami mai linzami na Cuban: "Duniya na iya kusantar yaƙin nukiliya fiye da yadda ta kasance a kowane lokaci yayin Yaƙin Cold - ko da Oktoba 1962."
Amma duk da haka idan aka zo batun makaman nukiliya, manyan jaridun Amurka ba su da iyakacin motsin rai ko kishin ƙwararru don bincika ci gaban haɗarin atomic. Tun daga farkon zamanin nukiliya, kowane mutum a Ofishin Oval ya halarci hulɗar jama'a a hankali, tare da manyan kafofin watsa labarai da wuya su yi tambaya game da shelar ayyukan jin kai.
Yin sanarwa a ranar 6 ga Agusta, 1945, Shugaba Harry Truman ya yi iya ƙoƙarinsa don yin yaudara. "Duniya za ta lura cewa an jefa bam din nukiliya na farko a Hiroshima, sansanin soji," in ji shi. "Hakan ya faru ne saboda mun yi fatan a wannan harin na farko da mu guji kashe fararen hula, muddin ya yiwu."
Amma fararen hula sun mamaye birnin Hiroshima - da kuma Nagasaki, inda wani Bam ya tashi kwanaki uku bayan haka. Dubban daruruwan ne suka mutu sakamakon tashin bama-baman. Masana dabarun sojan Amurka sun yi marmarin "amfani da bam da farko inda tasirinsa ba zai kasance mai tasiri ba kawai a siyasance ba amma a iya aunawa ta fasaha," masanin kimiyyar aikin Manhattan David H. Frisch ya tuna.
Ga kafafen yada labaran Amurka, harin bam din nukiliya da aka kai a garuruwan Japan guda biyu ya kasance mai tsarki. Don haka, a cikin 1994, hayaniyar ƙasa ta barke lokacin da Cibiyar Smithsonian ta shirya shirye-shiryen nunin bikin cika shekaru 50.
Yawancin punditocracy ya dace a ɗaure. "A cikin mahallin lokacin… tashin bom ya yi matukar ma'ana," in ji Cokie Roberts a gidan talabijin na cibiyar sadarwa - kuma, ta kara da cewa, tana tayar da tambayoyi masu mahimmanci bayan rabin karni "ba shi da ma'ana ko kadan." A cikin gidan telebijin na ABC guda, George Will ya tofa albarkacin bakinsa: "Abin takaici ne lokacin da wata cibiya irin ta Smithsonian ta nuna shakku kan babban jagoranci da aka albarkace mu da shi a yakin duniya na biyu."
Mawallafin marubuci Charles Krauthammer, yana yin Allah wadai da "ƙarfin daidaiton siyasa," ya rubuta cewa nuni na gaskiya a kan allon zanen gidan kayan gargajiya "ya yi alƙawarin zama abin kunya na masu bita da hannu da laifi."
Irin wannan tsattsauran ra'ayi na kafofin watsa labarai ya sa Smithsonian ya shiga ciki maimakon ci gaba da baje kolin tarihi. Ko da shekaru biyar bayan haka, ba a yarda da kallon tashin bama-bamai a fili.
A wannan lokacin rani, yayin da shugabannin Pakistan da Indiya ke yin tunani game da zaɓin makaman nukiliya, za su iya yin la'akari da punditry. Bayan haka, "a cikin mahallin lokacin," za su iya kammalawa, bam ɗin atomatik yana yin "ma'ana mai girma," ba tare da buƙatar tambayar "babban jagoranci" ko shiga cikin "hannun hannu da laifi."
A baya a shekara ta 1983, wata sanarwa da limaman Katolika na Amirka suka yi a hankalce ya yi kira da a yi “yanayin ra’ayi wanda zai sa ya yiwu ƙasarmu ta nuna baƙin cikinta game da harin bam ɗin da aka yi a shekara ta 1945. Idan ba tare da wannan baƙin cikin ba, babu yiwuwar samun hanyar da za a bi. hana amfani da makaman nukiliya nan gaba."
Amma jami'an Amurka da manyan 'yan jarida suna ci gaba da zaɓe da kyamarsu. A cikin ƙasashen tsakiya, ja-fari-da-blue yaƙin nukiliya ba da gaske ba ne "makamin halakar da jama'a."
Watanni uku da suka gabata, sabon sabon bita da yanayin Nukiliya da gwamnatin Amurka ta yi ya haifar da wani martani mai ban mamaki daga Pervez Hoodbhoy, mai fafutukar neman zaman lafiya wanda farfesa ne a fannin kimiyyar lissafi a Jami’ar Quaid-e-Azam da ke Islamabad: “Me ya sa kowace kasa ta duniya ba za ta bunkasa nukiliya ba. makamai yanzu da Amurka za ta iya lalata kowa a kowane lokaci? Gwamnatin Bush ta sanar da cewa tana kallon makaman kare dangi a matsayin kayan yaki da yake-yake, ba wai kawai makaman kare dangi ba. Tashe-tashen hankulan sojojin Amurka na lalata kowane ma'aunin sarrafa makamai a ko'ina. Mu a Pakistan da Indiya da suka daɗe suna yaƙi da makamin nukiliyar na wani yanki na ɗan lokaci an mayar da su ba su da bakin magana.
Abin da ke zagawa yana da halin zuwa. Masu tsara manufofin Washington suna ci gaba da ƙarfafa makaman nukiliyar Amurka tare da yin watsi da su yayin da suke yi da wasu ƙasashe da yawa - suna bayyana, a zahiri, "yin yadda muka faɗa, ba kamar yadda muke yi ba." Amma ba dade ko ba dade, irin waɗannan furucin ba su da gamsarwa sosai.
Norman Solomon shi ne marubucin marubucin "Kashe namu: Bala'i na Kwarewar Amurka tare da Radiation Atomic" (Delacorte Press, 1982). An buga dukkan littafin akan layi a: www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/
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