Opinion | The Last Survivors of an Atomic Bomb Have a Story to Tell
www.nytimes.com
On the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must listen to the few who can still speak to the horror nuclear weapons can inflict.
  • @Warl0k3English
    22•3 months ago

    The last survivors of atomic bombs so far.

  • @PloppEnglish
    17•3 months ago

    That sounds a bit sadistic. Who came up with that rule? “Let’s wait until there’s only one of them left, then we’ll listen!”

    • Zombie-MantisEnglish
      11•3 months ago

      It means, “listen up, this is your last chance to hear their words, from their mouths.” People have been documenting their thoughts for a long time, but their time is coming to an end.

      • Repple (she/her)English
        6•3 months ago

        Yep, John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” scarred me for life (as well it should have) when I read it in 5th grade, especially as a Japanese American whose grandfathers fought on each side of the war.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    Not really the last considering both the U.S. and the Soviets had their troops march into the radioactive cloud during tests to see what would happen.

    • Irremarkable
      14•3 months ago

      Not to mention there’s got to be at least a handful of the people on pacific islands we screwed over with tests such as Castle Bravo left.

      • Flying SquidMEnglish
        6•3 months ago

        Definitely. A bunch of indigenous Pacific Islanders were exposed, as was a boat full of Japanese fishermen. The latter event was the inspiration for Godzilla.

          • Flying SquidMEnglish
            3•3 months ago

            One of the worst parts to me is that the U.S. had taken those islands in WWII and just decided, “these are ours forever now and we can do whatever the fuck we want with them,” which kind of sounds like the imperialism they were supposedly fighting.