Hiroshima.

Everybody knows what happened here.

What you can never appreciate from afar, no matter how good your teachers or how comprehensive a documentary is the reality of what took place at 8.15am on August 6th, 1945. ‘Little Boy’ was smaller than the bomb which would fall on Nagasaki a few days later but in a second it reduced most of Hiroshima to rubble and many of its people to ash.

An enormous effort was made to identify those killed, and to provide, where possible, remains to families for burial.  But they were reduced to ash.  How do you identify a pile of ash? Continue reading Nobody had to excavate these ruins →