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Eight days later, it was. Ever since, there has been controversy over when the war would have ended had the bomb not been dropped on Hiroshima--a second was detonated over the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9--and how many Japanese and Americans would have died before it did. But, plainly, the most terrible war ever known ended earlier than it would have because of the Enola Gay's mission. The bombs cost tens of thousands of lives--perhaps 120,000 were killed immediately in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with many more dying later from the effects of radiation...
...press that logic further, and you arrive at an uncomfortable place. If nuclear weapons are so great at keeping the peace, why shouldn't everyone have them? And what happens when the Bomb falls into the hands of those who don't remember the legacy of Aug. 6--or simply choose not to? Sixty years after Hiroshima, 14 years after the Soviet Union imploded, the great question facing strategists--facing all of us--is less how a nation might array its nuclear forces and more how to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons from spinning out of control. The Bush...
...sure, the challenge of proliferation has been with us from the start. On Aug. 5, 1945, the day before Hiroshima, the possibility of nuclear weapons was hardly a secret. (At least two crew members of the Enola Gay guessed the nature of their cargo before Tibbets told them on the flight from Tinian.) The key theoretical and laboratory work on nuclear fission had been done and published by 1939, and since the community of physicists included Americans, Britons, Germans, French, Italians, Swedes, Russians, Hungarians and Japanese, no one country ever had a monopoly of nuclear know...
...them has been an act of war. We find it hard to celebrate that--we may think, as George Orwell wrote two months after Hiroshima, that the atom bomb ushered into being an indefinite "peace that is no peace"--but we should, perhaps, be thankful for small mercies. Since Aug. 6, 1945, we have lived uneasily with the Bomb, and uneasy with it we should always be. But we have lived. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/New Delhi, Michael Brunton and Roland Lloyd Parry/London, Coco Masters/New York, Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Yuki Oda/Tokyo, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg, Mark Thompson/Washington and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow...
...Frederick L. Ashworth, 93 Weaponeer on the Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on Aug...