Seventy-seven years ago today the United states turned World War II into the first nuclear war when a nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. In my youth, perhaps high school I remember reading Hiroshima, the book. I can also remember bombing drills in elementary school when we would all hide under our desks. All-in-all a scary memory. The photo above is the mushroom cloud at Hiroshima.
A once vibrant city was reduced to cinders in flash of time. Over 100,000 thousand people died that day, with many more in the years to follow from the effects of radiation.
Arguments have been made both for and against the action the United states took that day. Regardless, more civilians died that single day than any military target could account for.
A couple of days later another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Close to another 100,000 Japanese civilians died in an instant.
Please take the chatter seriously about the Russians using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The effects, while small in comparison to Hiroshima and Nagasaki will still be devastating.
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