Eighty years ago today, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. More than most events in recent history, this must be remembered.
One of the things that’s always said about terrible events is “it must never happen again.” But of course this did happen again, just three days later when the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
So many people died that we still don’t know the true number. As far as anybody knows, it was “between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians“.
There was another event that lacked the horrifying association with nuclear weapons, but killed more people than either of the atomic blasts: the firebombing of Tokyo, Japan by the US in March, 1945.
That came about a month after the firebombing of Dresden, Germany by the US and England.
The US and England are not the only countries to have firebombed cities.
