On Aug. 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first nuclear war weapon over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Performers sing for the victims of WWII during a bonfire event in front of the ruins of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, now commonly known as the atomic bomb dome , in Hiroshima, Japan on August 5, 2022, a day ahead of the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing at the end of WWII.It is a day to remember what many would prefer to forget.
Hiroshima Day came into being to honor the dead, promote peace and raise awareness of the horrible effects of nuclear war. That awareness is particularly important now in an era in which nuclear capabilities are measured not only in kilotons but in megatons and, in the measuring unit from “Dr. Strangelove” that inspired a famous rock band, megadeaths.
The Aug. 7, 1945, edition of the Tribune illustrated the human stakes with numbers: 21 U.S. service members died after a destroyer hit a mine in the Philippines and 33 Chicago-area men were reported wounded in various incidents.With Germany defeated a few months earlier, Russia under Josef Stalin already was invading Japan from the north, aiming to grab as much land as they could, as they already were doing in eastern Europe.
A telephone call to Washington colorfully reported the Fermi team’s breakthrough with a coded message: “The Italian navigator has just landed in the new world.”America’s monopoly on nuclear weapons lasted four years before the Soviet Union detonated its own atomic bomb in September 1949. “The world learned that nuclear weapons should only be a deterrence,” Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who negotiated nuclear control issues with both North Korea and Iran, recently said in a television interview, “not a war-fighting weapon.”By making nuclear annihilation possible, the bomb made nuclear war all but unthinkable. Yet we have to think about it if we are to have any hope of turning our nuclear swords into plowshares of peace.
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