I think that what has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
(via theparisreview)
Read John Hersey’s landmark 1946 report on the bombing of Hiroshima, now online.
(via newyorker)
Visiting Hiroshima’s Peace Museum was one of the most thoroughly depressing experiences that I can recall, on par with a concentration camp in Latvia and the killing fields in Cambodia. Humans can be barbaric, but at least we have consciousness.
It would be too fitting if Obama came out today with a formal apology to Japan.
One can hope.
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