59 years ago today...
Aug. 6th, 2004 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unclejimboThe world changed.
We dropped a single bomb and the city of Hiroshima was destroyed. Thus began the Nuclear Age.
On Monday, it will be the 59th Anniversary of the dropping of another single bomb. That one destroyed the city of Nagasaki.
Historians and others will be debating whether or not the correct decision was the use these weapons or not, but this weekend should be a time where we reflect upon what happened and decide if we could live with using these terrible weapons again.
In 1945, the death toll was a little more than 300,000. Roughly the equivalent of Peoria, Illinois. This weekend, remember those who died. Most were innocents.
Here's the story from Yahoo.
We dropped a single bomb and the city of Hiroshima was destroyed. Thus began the Nuclear Age.
On Monday, it will be the 59th Anniversary of the dropping of another single bomb. That one destroyed the city of Nagasaki.
Historians and others will be debating whether or not the correct decision was the use these weapons or not, but this weekend should be a time where we reflect upon what happened and decide if we could live with using these terrible weapons again.
In 1945, the death toll was a little more than 300,000. Roughly the equivalent of Peoria, Illinois. This weekend, remember those who died. Most were innocents.
Here's the story from Yahoo.
