![]() ![]() It is a deeply moving story, but one told through a nation-making lens, with barely a nod to Japan’s own war crimes or its uneven redressal of the claims of first- and second-generation hibakusha, the surviving victims of the bombing. ![]() Nagasaki is now the site of an elaborate Peace Memorial whose central story is the victimhood of Japan. Fat Man laid a city to waste, quickly killing between 60,000-80,000 people, the death toll eventually rising to over 130,000. I had already visited Nagasaki, where the US military used a plutonium bomb codenamed Fat Man, very similar in design and yield to The Gadget tested in New Mexico. What I saw there reminded me of all the stories that don’t make it into most nuclear storytelling. ![]() Some years ago, I joined an odd group of atomic tourists to make the long trek across New Mexico to visit this iconic site, now made more famous by Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer. On only two days a year, the site of the world’s first nuclear explosion-codenamed Trinity-is open for a few hours to visitors. ![]()
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