Word: hiroshimas
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...anger of World War II veterans and others who knew what they were talking about descended upon the Smithsonian. The curators produced a revised script earlier in the summer and last week a third try, which finally puts Hiroshima and Nagasaki into the historical context of Japanese aggression and its many victims and of a long and vastly destructive...
...course, the metaphysics is confusing. Hiroshima, introducing the nuclear age, lifted war out of its traditional (and more or less manageable) place in human affairs and into a realm of the absolute, of doomsday...
...have to make distinctions, even -- or especially -- when using the vocabularies of seeming absolutes. At Hiroshima there was, precisely, a warum, an excellent...
...mornings. The scales of death were pretty heavy, well before the Bomb. Four months earlier, Americans suffered 48,000 casualties taking Okinawa. And in March 1945, the incendiary- bomb raids had burned down much of Tokyo and killed at least 100,000, a toll approaching the combined carnage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To have possessed a weapon that would end such a war almost instantly and not to have used it would have been inexplicable and, to those who would have died in the longer war, inexcusable...
...Last week, a couple of days after the Smithsonian released its third Hiroshima script, Elie Wiesel was speaking in Washington at the new U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was addressing 120 teenagers from five Middle Eastern countries who had spent a summer session at a Maine camp in the "Seeds of Peace" program. A Palestinian boy in the program minimized the Jews' Holocaust under the Nazis and said bitterly, thinking of his own people, "There are many holocausts...