Nagasaki

  • Monday, August 9, 1945: Part 2

    August 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the atom bomb’s use against the Japanese at Nagasaki (August 6 at Hiroshima). As Robert Oppenheimer observed, “We knew the world would not be the same … We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world …… Continue reading

  • Monday, August 6, 1945: Part 1

    August 6 marks the 65th anniversary of the atom bomb’s use against the Japanese at Hiroshima and August 9 at Nagasaki. To date, there has not been another military use of this terrible and powerful weapon. Our lives in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been marked in many ways by the presence and potential of atomic weapons.… Continue reading