The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who were in the city at the time the bombs fell are getting old. Their average age is in the eighties. Once they are gone, who will remember the horror of that day? We will! We will remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the destruction was so horrible, the loss […]
~Atomic War Still Threatens ~ On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, followed four days later by another dropped on Nagasaki. Over 100,000 people died instantly. Over the years. many, many more died of radioactive poisoning and birth defects. Witnessing this destruction and horror, one […]
~You Should Be~ Yesterday, Rex Tillerson, USA Secretary of State, told us that we should all sleep well. We are under no nuclear threat. The US President is just saber rattling when he talks about delivering “fire and fury” if the US is threatened. If only we could trust him. But this week was […]
The Nuclear Threat Initiative sent me the following e-mail this morning: “Seventy-one years ago tomorrow, the city of Hiroshima was leveled by an awesome and gruesome new weapon: the atomic bomb. Three days later, Nagasaki faced the same fate. Today, the world has entered a new and potentially more dangerous era of nuclear risks. Consider […]
Remembering Hell by Joan Koster What are you planning to do tomorrow? Get up? Eat breakfast? Go to work? Sixty-four years ago on August 6th, 1945 the people living in the city of Hiroshima were getting ready for their day. At 8:15 AM the first atomic bomb was dropped, killing 140,000 people in a man-made […]
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