Hiroshi­ma

One of our final stop-offs in Japan was Hiroshi­ma. Hiroshi­ma is most famous for being the first city (and so far 50% of all cities) to be nucle­ar bombed. Nearly everything in the city was destroyed, and at least 50% of the popu­la­tion died, with the surviv­ors often suffer­ing extreme health prob­lems after­wards. Nearly all the build­ings in the city are modern- the Atom­ic Dome pictured above was one of the few old build­ings stand­ing. Visit­ing Hiroshi­ma has only increased my belief in nucle­ar disarm­a­ment. (And I’m for unilat­er­al disarm­a­ment- some­thing the UK govern­ment had the chance to do last year but didn’t, with choos­ing to renew the Trident missiles).

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