‘US Unleashing of Atomic Weapons against Civilian Populations Was a Criminal Act of the First Order’

Human Wrongs Watch By Peter Symonds* 6 August 2015 (WSWS)* – Seventy years ago today, an American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The massive blast, equivalent to about 13,000 tonnes of TNT, killed 80,000 people, or 30 percent of the population, immediately or within hours and laid waste to … Continue reading ‘US Unleashing of Atomic Weapons against Civilian Populations Was a Criminal Act of the First Order’