8:15 am on Aug. 6, 1945
60 years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb code-named "Little Boy" over Hiroshima, Japan.
Some perspectives on this historic event that changed the world forever.
- Sunao Tsuboi was on the way to his university when he was surrounded by a sharp flash
- The danger of journalists embedding with the government to deceive the world
- We do not require the ruins of cities or even the testimony of survivors to remind us of the need to reject nuclear weapons
- It was civilization itself that vanished that morning
- The U.S. had already crossed a terrifying moral threshold when it accepted the targeting of civilians as a legitimate instrument of warfare
- Hiroshima's myths are now motivating our enemies to attack us with the very weapon we invented
- The United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings
- Americans have never really come to grips either with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the nuclear age they ushered in
- It is hard to imagine how many more GIs and Tommies would have perished in 1944-45 had Anglo-American leaders flinched from using all the means at their disposal to hasten the end of the war
- We live in a time where our minds have been so battered by the statistics of death and suffering that figures in the millions leave us numb, and nothing but the personal testimony of individuals, even if it can only faintly represent the reality, is capable of shaking us out of that numbness
- Why Americans are barbarians
- The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb
Was it the right call? Do you accept that civilians are acceptable targets in a war between nation states?
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