75 years ago, on the night before August 6, 1945 the people of Hiroshima slept, not yet knowing it was possible to burn a city with a single bomb. Now we know. But as Baldwin wrote, “People find it very difficult to act on what they know.”

Aug 6, 2020 · 2:40 AM UTC

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Replying to @RobertEllsberg @yourauntemma
My father went ashore in Hiroshima 6 months afterwards as a member of a medical team. Then to Nagasaki for the same purpose. He'd been a medic with Marines in island fighting of '43 and '44. He said he was completely unprepared for the horrible injuries of the survivors.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
The framing “the bombing was unavoidable” is intended to hit any critical selflection