Trump keeps up US nuclear hypocrisy by leaving the Iran deal
From 1945 to 1992, as part of the nuclear arms race, the US conducted around 1,054 nuclear tests by official count, including 216 atmospheric, underwater and space tests. The peak occurred between 1961-62, when 340 megatons were detonated in the atmosphere by the United States and Soviet Union. During the final stages of the second world war, the US detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9, 1945.
Commenting on the unprecedented devastation, science fiction writer Ray Bradbury said: “After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained”.
With Bradbury’s haunting words in mind, it would behove the Trump administration to remember that America is the first and only nation to use a nuclear weapon on other humans.
