Author: JIM CARRIER Special to The Gazette
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Eight decades after Hiroshima, a new nuclear arms race is underway
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NAGASAKI, Japan • Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian, pilot Paul Tibbets reflected on his successful mission — the destruction of…
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Nagasaki’s Peace Park
Schoolchildren line up for a photo in front of the giant bronze Peace Statue sculpted by Seibo Kitamura in Nagasaki’s Peace Park. Seibo wrote: “The right hand points to the atomic bomb, the left hand points to peace, and the face prays deeply for the victims of war.”
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Nagasaki survivor
Miyako Jodai, 85, with a Nagasaki radiation map, points to the home where she was on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945. Based on her location she was certified as a hibakusha (bomb-affected), and receives free medical care and a monthly stipend of a few hundred dollars.