80th Anniversary Hiroshima

General panoramic view of Hiroshima after the bomb ... shows the devastation ... about 0.4 miles ... / official U.S. Army photo.

Eighty years ago, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

This article from The Conversation,  Survivors’ voices 80 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki sound a warning and a call to action includes background and explanation of the modern disarmament movement. 

This article was written in 1946 for The New Yorker by John Hersey. The power of the piece is discussed in this article from LitHub by Greg Mitchell. Mitchell reports, "In a note to readers, the editors explained that they had taken this extraordinary step based on the conviction that most people still did not recognize the profoundly different power of this weapon—'the almost total obliteration of a city'—and now 'might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use.'"