Arab Hiroshima

Rashid Khashana Al-Hayat

21/07/2005 The commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, which will fall in few days, coincides with similar bombings in different regions of Iraq. The event raises, once again, the issue of the relation between strength and ethics. Three weeks before the two nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States undertook its first nuclear experience in history on July 16th in the desert of New Mexico in the US, which was a major turning point, not only in the course of the war but in the course of humanity. The bombing sector remained throughout the past 60 years an area prohibited for public. Even the pictures that captured the incident, were partly published then. It is only today that the entire set of photos is displayed. It is indubitable that the incident was overshadowed by the downfall repercussions of the German defeat and Japan�s surrender at the end of World War II...

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