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...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 Administration has publicly declared that it is intolerable...
...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...
...Could Hiroshima happen again? For 60 years the sense of power that goes with having a nuclear capability has been tempered by another emotion: naked fear of the horror that nuclear weapons can cause. From John Hersey's heartbreaking journalism for the New Yorker in 1946, through films, books and documentaries, the hell that was Hiroshima has helped persuade us to stay our hand...
...very existence of the Bomb has made the sort of total war practiced 60 years ago morally unthinkable. For once, humans have not done what they are capable of doing. There have been some 525 nuclear explosions aboveground since Hiroshima; not one of 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...
...more photos, first-person recollections and a report on Hiroshima today, visit time.com