I am saddened that there has been hardly any coverage in the SA media of the anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Japan 74 years ago.
It is shameful that the world has already all but forgotten the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who became victims when 13km² of ground was turned into an inferno in Hiroshima, and in milliseconds 80,000 civilians were burned or vapourised. Three days later the US hit another civilian target city called Nagasaki, with another 70,000 people atomised...
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