When asked, many Japanese would answer 'peace' for the question "What comes up in your mind when you hear the word the Atomic Bomb?". How is that the nuclear weapon could be associated with peace?

It is not about the balance of power theory among the nations. It is the way the aftermess of the nuclear bomb has been introduced mainly in the Japanese official and grassroots sleepy 'peace education'. The theory goes like this: when anyone would know what a disaster the weapon would bring, there would be no talks of creating one. Any fight is like in cartoons which is not to be even discussed among proper adults. The war is only in fictions. Don't talk about nuclear warheads in China.

Now the news say that they are going to teach peace in the same way in Iraq. I was amazed to hear the news. They are going to have an exhibition of the time of war. The mushroom clouds, scorched earth, burned human corpses, shadows of what was human on rocks, the people rushed to get water in the river, the death of what appears to be a healthy individual, etc. Certainly Iraqi people would not have to be taught about how bad the war is? Are they going to tell them about the danger of nuclear Iran? When the people are setting up bombs on the roadside, the message should be that this prosperous Asian country is succeeding in this peaceful environment and that the peace is the absolute requirement in the success of a nation.