Fraser Martinhttp://www.themetropolitain.ca/articles/author/243enghttp://www.themetropolitain.ca/articles/view/1554http://www.themetropolitain.ca/articles/view/1554Around  1960 the Kingston Trio recorded Sheldon Harnick's satirical ditty "The Merry Minuet" which, while underlining the climate of discord and hate prevailing in the world recalls that mankind had been endowed with "the mushroom shaped cloud"and that someday inevitably someone will "set the spark off…..and we will all be blown away". We have just recently been given a stark reminder of the consequences of such action through images of the destruction, devastation and death wreaked upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.Fraser MartinSun, 23 Aug 2015 21:07:00 -0400