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| Hiroshima after August 1945 |
In August, 72 years ago, fire and fury as no man had seen before destroyed Hiroshima, by the first ever atom bomb and then by the immediate firestorm that followed, ordered by President Truman. The second, a plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, followed 3 days later. Since then, there has been a lot of rhetoric, the Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War. But no atomic weapon has been used in anger since. Following on from yesterday's slanging match, North Korea has stated that it is planning to send four missiles to splash down in the sea around the US military and tourist island of Guam later in the month. President Trump's response, that fury might not have been statement enough, that NK should be very nervous "Things will happen to them...", and not ruling out a pre-emptive strike. The world watches, concerned, yet strangely not taking this too seriously.
It is an irony the the first atomic bombs began their plane journey from another of the Mariana islands, Tinian, just north east of Guam, in this month 72 years ago, and now Guam waits to see if it is bombed.
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