Memorial Days: the racial underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Memorial Days: the racial underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: This past Memorial Day, a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the throat of an African-American, George Floyd, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Seventy-five years ago, an American pilot dropped an atomic bomb on the civilian population of Hiroshima. Worlds apart in time, space, and scale, the two events share three key features. Each was an act of state violence. Each was an act carried out against a defenseless opponent. Each was an act of naked racism.