This week marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Today marks  the anniversary of an even more grotesque event – the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Three days later the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. These remain the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. Some 12 km² of Hiroshima were destroyed, as were around 69% of the city’s buildings. The images above, which were taken […]

Categories: Culture & Books, History, International • Tags: haiku, hiroshima, nuclear warfare, poetry, war poetry, yasuhiko shigemoto