Hiroshima – Are the Lessons of 06 August 1945 Being Forgotten?

It's 75 years since an American air force plane Enola Gay dropped an atom bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Estimated between 150 and 220 thousand people were killed.

An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped. Dated 1945 (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images). Source: Universal Images Group Editorial

The experience left Japan deeply scarred, with a strong anti-nuclear movement that endures to this day.  But today some groups in Japan want their country to change its pacifist stance.

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