yeah, hiroshima and nagasaki. those were brutal terrorist attacks. and today marks the 60th anniversary of the u.s. bombing the crap out of hiroshima. i read an article in this week's anderson valley advertiser, (boonville,california) that an estimated 80,000 people were killed in a split second. roughly 13,000 kilometers of the city was obliterated. by december of that same year, another 70,000 people had died from radiation and injuries.
president truman's chief of staff, admiral william leahy, stated in his memoirs that "the use of this barbarous weapon at hiroshima and nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against japan. the japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender."
since the bombings in 1945, tens of thousands more residents of the two cities have continued to suffer and die from radiation-induced cancers, birth defects and stillbirths.
just something i have been thinking about.
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Something many of us have been thinking about dear Anne! You just posted it!
hey, annie, good post...as soon as I get my wits about me, I'm posting an editorial on my public blog about this...I'll let you know when it's up.
thanks for commenting, nancy.
i saw that rosie o mentioned it as well, on yesterday's post.
nigela- it boggles my mind, to imagine that kind of loss. thanks
for noticing.
lil sis... your wits are intact, and then some! thanks for stopping in.
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