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A 70 anni dallo sgancio della prima bomba atomica sulla città di Hiroshima, proponiamo due articoli, per riflettere su questa terribile parentesi della storia umana:

In questo articolo, il Guardian pone le due bombe nucleari sganciate sul Giappone nel loro contesto storico, e soprattutto guarda a cosa abbia potuto significare il ricordo di Hiroshima e Nagasaki durante i decenni successivi, in piena Guerra Fredda.

“One of the key elements of an effective deterrence programme is to promote the belief that, when it comes down to it, the possessor of nuclear weapons is prepared to use them. But the lesson that Hiroshima, the victim of the most primitive nuclear technology, must teach us is that no one should be prepared to use them. And if no one is prepared to use them, that’s a good basis for the commitment that no one should possess them. Seventy years on, Hiroshima also deserves the promise: never again.”

In questo articolo del 2009, Richard Lloyd Parry racconta la storia delle due bombe atomiche dal punto di vista di Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Akira Iwanaga e Kuniyoshi Sato, gli unici uomini sopravvissuti ad entrambe le esplosioni del 6 e 9 Agosto 1945.

“Why did they have to drop another bomb on Nagasaki?” Mr Yamaguchi asked me as we sat in the fruit garden. “They could have made their point by dropping one bomb. I think they were in a hurry to show their superiority. It would have been one thing if they had used it on a battlefield. But they knew that it would kill women, children, babies. How could they do that?”

Immagine By U.S. Navy Public Affairs Resources Website [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons