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63 years today since the US nuked Hiroshima
Posted by saunvedan on 6 August 2008.
There are few things that change history as much as war. Ask anyone who's lived through one and they'll tell you what it was like surviving it. But what if there are no survivors? Over 140,000 people perished within seconds of the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 63 years ago today. This morning, Japan marked the bomb drop at a ceremony in Hiroshima, and called for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
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Why was the atomic bomb dropped in 1945?
Publication Date:
20 Mar 2007Body:
A Greenpeace background briefing summarising the American debate on the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Publication date: July 2005
Summary
On August 6th 1945 a US B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. On August 9th, another B-29, Bock's Car, dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. In the years after the dropping of the atomic bomb American administrations, and the US military, have developed an official narrative which states that it was militarily necessary to drop the bomb to end the war with Japan. The only alternative was an invasion of Japan in which many US troops would have been killed.