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Reflections on Hiroshima and the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Lawrence S. Wittner
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In late July 2004, as I opened the window curtains of my posh room in the Rihga Royal Hotel and looked out at the city of Hiroshima, I was struck by how marvelously it had been restored. Fifty-nine years ago, Hiroshima had been nearly obliterated by the fire and blast of the U.S. atomic bombing, which killed 140,000 people by the end of 1945 and left tens of thousands of others dying slowly and painfully from radiation poisoning. Now the city had been thoroughly rebuilt, with its sea of modern buildings, surrounded by green mountains, glittering in the sunshine. More than a million people lived there.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 7 , July 2005 , e8
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