Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks
- Written by Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University
Visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima view a large-scale panoramic photograph of the destruction following the 1945 bombing.Carl Court/Getty Images It was 8:15 on a Monday morning, Aug. 6, 1945. World War II was raging in Japan and across Europe.
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Hiroshim...