A-bomb survivor to speak about Hiroshima

[Rose Siding]

When the mushroom cloud exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, Keijiro Matsushima was contemplating a difficult calculus question in school. He was 16.

He heard the blast, ducked under his desk, then emerged covered in blood. The windows in his classroom had broken.
He crawled out of the school building, bandaged a friend's cut and took him to the Red Cross Hospital. In the streets, he saw burned, swollen and disfigured faces. Peeling skin hung off bodies.

"The road was full of terribly wounded people walking in a procession like ghosts; others were sitting on a cart being pulled by another person and still others were lying or sitting lifelessly on the sidewalks," Matsushima remembers.
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Now 76 and a retired junior-high principal, Matsushima is traveling the world to share his recollections of the first atomic bomb explosion in history. This week, he'll be in Los Alamos -- the birthplace of the atomic bomb -- and Santa Fe.

"As a survivor of the atomic bomb, I hope to talk to more people of the world about the horror of what happened in Hiroshima, and to cooperate with all people to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of our earth," he wrote.

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[chelsea0011]

1. Ignoring the political reasons of why, still the greatest use of WMD ever

[clem_c_rock]

2. Let's not mention the firebombing attacks

ON over 30 cities and were designed to kill the maximum # of civilians as possible.

[Briar]

3. When "we" do that

it's to save the lives of thousands of our servicemen. Killing hundreds of thousands of "enemy" civilians then is seen as justified.