Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 65 years of pain
Hiroshima. Photo: EPA
65 years have passed since the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This became the first use of nuclear weapons in human history, which was, among other things, carried out not against any military facilities, but against peaceful cities. Prominent Moscow pediatrician Leonid Roshal called it a “horrific barbarity”:
"America killed so many defenseless people who had nothing to do with the army and were just residing in these two Japanese cities - this move was completely unmotivated. Burnt children, thousands of victims and ruined lives cannot be justified under any circumstances in the course of any war. A war is above all brutality, even though many soldiers are said to have been saved in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Leonid Roshal is strongly convinced that the tragedy which occurred 65 years ago served a lesson for all of humanity. This was an example of how a country can deliver a crushing blow on the peaceful population, he said, adding that those who gave an order to drop bombs in Japan may be compared with terrorists seeking as many deaths of harmless people as possible.
Paradoxical as it may seem, atomic bombings carried out by the US are now gradually falling into oblivion as far as Japan’s younger generations are concerned. According to a recent study by one of the Japanese TV channels, nearly a half of respondents failed to name the dates of these tragic events. This has become a reason why survivors of the two bombings in Japan receive remarkably little public attention. Chairman of Japan’s Atomic Bomb Survivors Association Hidenori Yamamoto shares his stand on the issue:
"Most of the 22 thousand survivors are disabled and some of them receive no pensions. Our Association has therefore two main objectives. First of all, we need to continue seeking a complete nuclear disarmament. And a certain hope has emerged in this area as Russia and the US sign a treaty to cut their nuclear arsenals. Besides, we must initiate the revision of the law concerning Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who have not been offered apologies from the government as yet, to say nothing of compensations."
Time is the best healer, but Japan will never forget the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just as many other nations. A poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center revealed that people in Russia consider these bombings the most terrible episode of the Second World War and one and all they say there could be no excuse for the US. 
65 years have passed since the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This became the first use of nuclear weapons in human history, which was, among other things, carried out not against any military facilities, but against peaceful cities. Prominent Moscow pediatrician Leonid Roshal called it a “horrific barbarity”:
"America killed so many defenseless people who had nothing to do with the army and were just residing in these two Japanese cities - this move was completely unmotivated. Burnt children, thousands of victims and ruined lives cannot be justified under any circumstances in the course of any war. A war is above all brutality, even though many soldiers are said to have been saved in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Leonid Roshal is strongly convinced that the tragedy which occurred 65 years ago served a lesson for all of humanity. This was an example of how a country can deliver a crushing blow on the peaceful population, he said, adding that those who gave an order to drop bombs in Japan may be compared with terrorists seeking as many deaths of harmless people as possible.
Paradoxical as it may seem, atomic bombings carried out by the US are now gradually falling into oblivion as far as Japan’s younger generations are concerned. According to a recent study by one of the Japanese TV channels, nearly a half of respondents failed to name the dates of these tragic events. This has become a reason why survivors of the two bombings in Japan receive remarkably little public attention. Chairman of Japan’s Atomic Bomb Survivors Association Hidenori Yamamoto shares his stand on the issue:
"Most of the 22 thousand survivors are disabled and some of them receive no pensions. Our Association has therefore two main objectives. First of all, we need to continue seeking a complete nuclear disarmament. And a certain hope has emerged in this area as Russia and the US sign a treaty to cut their nuclear arsenals. Besides, we must initiate the revision of the law concerning Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who have not been offered apologies from the government as yet, to say nothing of compensations."
Time is the best healer, but Japan will never forget the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just as many other nations. A poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center revealed that people in Russia consider these bombings the most terrible episode of the Second World War and one and all they say there could be no excuse for the US.
اين تارنما در تيرماه سال1384 به بهانه سالروز حادثه سقوط هواپيماي ايراني توسط ناو وينسن آمريكايي در خليج فارس تاسيس شد و همانطور كه از اسم آن معلوم است درصدد معرفي تروريست حقيقي است و به عنوان نمونه مصاديق مختلف تروريسم و موارد آشكار نقض حقوق بشر توسط تروريستهاي بينالمللي را خبررساني ميكند و گاهي تحليلهايي از جريانهاي تروريستي در آن اطلاعرساني ميشود.