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he destructive power
of the fossil-fuelled 20th Century reach something of a pinnacle 70
years ago when a war-inflamed America dropped an atomic bomb on Japan’s Hiroshima.
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| Hiroshima after it was bombed on August 6, 70 years ago |
Just three days late, the devastation of Hiroshima was
repeated at Nagasaki, by chance as the target city of Kokura was blanketed by
cloud and so the decision was made to dump the plane’s deadly cargo on
Nagasaki.
Associate Professor, International Education and Learning
Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, School of Population and Global
Health at University of Melbourne, Tilman Ruff, writes on The Conversation
about this life changing moment.
Read Professor Ruff’s story - “Ban the bomb: 70 years on,the nuclear threat looms as large as ever”.
Little did we know at the time, but the destruction
unleashed on those Japanese cities was little more than a foretaste alarming and
damaging energy of fossil fuels.
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