On this date...

16:05 hrs.
06 Aug 15

     On this date, 70 years ago, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was destroyed by a single nuclear bomb dropped from an American B-29 bomber (named the Enola Gay). Two days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and have continued to be lost from residual radiation poisoning.

     The American position was that if the Pacific Theatre of War would have continued on its current path the overall loss of life would have been ten fold. Therefore, in order to force the Japanese High Command to surrender these two devices were utilized.

     As recently as only two years ago the Japanese school system started to teach its students about its own military actions during WW II (forced labour camps, attacking Pearl Harbour, Korean women taken as sex slaves, etc.) This portion of Japanese history has not been taught for two generations.