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Hiroshima

posted by [c] on August 3, 2011

As the anniversary of the American dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima approaches in just a few days, I thought I would post this important documentary online. It gets closer than many I’ve seen in explaining the reasons behind the US decision to drop a uranium atomic bomb on Hiroshima on the 6th of August followed by a plutonium atomic bomb on Nagasaki only 3 days later. It also speaks powerfully of the immense immediate and long term suffering inflicted on the civilians, who were the direct target of the attack, as they made their way to work that morning.

Whatever your beliefs are about the use of atomic weapons or justification for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this film will provide opportunity to think again about those events and the people they affected.