{"id":361,"date":"2017-08-05T23:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2017-08-08T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:20:10","slug":"acknowledging-the-hiroshima-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledging the Hiroshima Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seventy two years ago today the first nuclear weapon was dropped on human beings. \u00a0The debate about whether its use was justified continues. \u00a0The Washington Post asks “Was it Justified or Needless” here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Globe and Mail interviewed one of the survivors, a Hibakusha<\/a>, Setsuko Nakamura here..<\/a><\/p>\n

A few things about nuclear weapons are not really debatable:<\/p>\n

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  1. They are not precision weapons. \u00a0They destroy everything and everyone within a large radius including women and children.<\/li>\n
  2. The effects of radiation exposure on surviving humans create lingering uncertainty – there can be health effects that show up years later. \u00a0Women and children are the most vulnerable to these lingering effects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let\u02bbs hope any world leader who considers scenarios that could result in the use of nuclear weapons has taken the time to learn about what can result. \u00a0No one wants to ponder these things, but it is important that we do. \u00a0The possible outcomes are horrific. \u00a0Can the ends ever justify the means? This is a question that deserves to be asked…<\/p>\n

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    Seventy two years ago today the first nuclear weapon was dropped on human beings. \u00a0The debate about whether its use was justified continues. \u00a0The Washington Post asks “Was it Justified or Needless” here. The Globe and Mail interviewed one of the survivors, a Hibakusha, Setsuko Nakamura here.. A few things about nuclear weapons are not really debatable: They are not precision weapons. \u00a0They destroy everything and everyone within a large radius including women and children. The effects of radiation exposure on surviving humans create lingering uncertainty – there can be health effects that show up years later. \u00a0Women and children Continue reading Acknowledging the Hiroshima Anniversary<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nuclear-weapons","category-opinion","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuclearnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}