How the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Reshaped the World, 80 Years On

“Why is it really a night? Why did our house fall? What happened?” Bevodotus of Myeko Nakamura, 5 years old, moments after the first atomic bomb fell at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945, as is the case in the classic John Hersey account HiroshimaWe still have our Befuddlement today. … above all, we feel mobilized because today’s leaders do more to prevent more horror than Hiroshima; If there is anything, led by the head of the history of America, Donald Trump, they make this possibility more likely. “

Michael Hirsch from FP wrote these words five years ago to celebrate 75 years since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in Japan. Five years later, during Trump’s second term, Hirsch analysis remains as always as always. This edition of the reading list reconsidates the legacy of bombs over the past eight decades, and is studying what the world – and has not been familiar with – from the nuclear atrocities of 1945.

“Why is it really a night? Why did our house fall? What happened?” Bevodotus of Myeko Nakamura, 5 years old, moments after the first atomic bomb fell at 8:15 am on August 6, 1945, as is the case in the classic John Hersey account HiroshimaWe still have our Befuddlement today. … above all, we feel mobilized because today’s leaders do more to prevent more horror than Hiroshima; If there is anything, led by the head of the history of America, Donald Trump, they make this possibility more likely. “

Michael Hirsch from FP wrote these words five years ago to celebrate 75 years since the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in Japan. Five years later, during Trump’s second term, Hirsch analysis remains as always as always. This edition of the reading list reconsidates the legacy of bombs over the past eight decades, and is studying what the world – and has not been familiar with – from the nuclear atrocities of 1945.

Hiroshima effect

After many years of the fall of the first nuclear bomb, we are grateful because it did not happen again, and it was not steeped, and the pasture is still the case, as Michael Hirsch wrote.

A man stands in the ruins of Hiroshima in Japan, after the United States dropped a atomic bomb, killing tens of thousands of civilians, on August 6, 1945. AP

Another American nuclear bases still allow Hiroshima

Adam Mount writes that American leaders should take responsibility for the previous nuclear atrocities.

General Douglas Mac Arthur and Japanese Emperor Hirohito in 1945, a few weeks after Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. AFP via Getty Images

The dangerous illusion of unconditional Japan surrender

For decades, US foreign policy has been badly distorted the way the Second World War ended.

The air view shows the settlement of the entire city blocks in Tokyo after the incendiary shelling raids in 1945. Corbis via Getty Images

Forgotten

After eighty years, the focus on atomic bombs is ignored by the Tokyo air strike.

The “tool”, the first atomic bomb, explodes in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Corbis via Getty Images

The long shade of the trinity test Ouinheimer

Jack Dicch writes: