Blake McMahon

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The Lessons of Hiroshima: We Still Need Nuclear Weapons

The Lessons of Hiroshima: We Still Need Nuclear Weapons
The Lessons of Hiroshima: We Still Need Nuclear Weapons

A new era of warfare began when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 70 years ago. While ordinary Japanese had grown used to seeing American bombers overhead, the hell on earth that was unleashed on August 6, 1945 eclipsed anything anyone had seen before. Estimates suggest that at least 90,000 of Hiroshima’s 380,000…