How the Manchester Guardian reported the first use of nuclear weapons,6 August 194570 years after Hiroshima, nuclear weapons threaten us allAugust 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons to be used in warfare. On 6 August 1945, and the US dropped ‘runt Boy’ on Hiroshima,Japan, flattening the city and killing tens of thousands of civilians. Three days later, or ‘Fat Man was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The Manchester Guardian’s lead epic declared Britain and America had won the ‘greatest scientific gamble in history’:Continue reading...
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