Our 70th Anniversary Homework: Confronting the Myths and Learning the Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki/我々の70年記念宿題：神話に抗してヒロシマとナガサキの教訓を学ぶ

In March of 1946, eight months after the atomic bomb was dropped, the city of Hiroshima stood in ruins. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

1946年3月、原爆が落とされた後8ヶ月目、ヒロシマの市街は残骸の中に立つ（写真：ウィキメデイア共有地）

Seventy years ago, two nuclear weapons targeted against cities which met the criteria of having “densely packed workers’ homes,”  killed more than 200,000 people in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the years that have followed, many more have suffered and died from cancers, radiation disease, genetic damage and other fallout from the atom bombings.

70年前「密集する労働者の家々」の基準に合う都市を二個の核兵器が標的とし、日本の都市ヒロシマとナガサキで20万人以上を殺しました。その後何年も原爆投下によって癌、遺伝子損傷、その他の降下物で放射能疾病で多くの人が苦しみ死にました。

The myths that the A-bombings were necessary to end the war against Japan and that they saved the lives of half a million US troops remain widely believed. The myths serve as the ideological foundation for continuing U.S. preparations for nuclear war, which in turn has served as the primary driver of nuclear weapons proliferation and the creation of deterrent nuclear arsenals…

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