As we mark the 65th anniversary of Nagasaki’s hellish destruction, it has always seemed to me that, of the two atomic bombings, this was the one more clearly unnecessary. After all, as Martin J. Sherwin argued in his classic work,…
Monthly Archives: August 2010
A Hiroshima survivor who became a leader on many issues in Seattle
by Joe Copeland • • 0 Comments
Akira “Ken” Nakano was a big influence on me and helped me plan my work in Hiroshima in 2009. He died a few months before I left on the Fulbright-sponsored research that led to this blog. Just before the anniversary…