Thursday, August 6, 2020

The great evil the US committed 75 years ago today

Today 75 years ago the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 

Three days later they dropped a second bomb.

The Soviet Union was about to enter the war in Japan. Many historians say that the Japanese were about to surrender ever before the Enola Gay dropped its deadly ordnance.

The United States is the only power that has used a nuclear weapon.

From today's Guardian:


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