Iran, Israel and others, 81 years after Hiroshima
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This week marks the 81st anniversary of the US dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist, contributor to The iPaper and the author of many nonfiction books and his latest, a novel, A Capital Calamity (Miniver Press, 2024), recalls the history and discusses the current state of nuclear weapons, especially as it relates to the war with Iran.
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