On this day 80 years ago, the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, killing over 100,000 people, most of them civilians. Four years later, it helped write the Geneva Conventions that would have labeled the act a war crime. AJ editorial lead Tony Karon explains how the U.S. has avoided reckoning with its nuclear legacy, and why that’s so dangerous. | AJ
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On this day 80 years ago, the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, killing over 100,000 people, most of them civilians. Four years later, it helped write the Geneva Conventions that would have labeled the act a war crime. AJ editorial lead Tony Karon explains how the U.S. has avoided reckoning with its nuclear legacy, and why that’s so dangerous. | AJ
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