LITTLE BOY
On this day in 1945 an estimated 80,000 people were instantly killed off in one of the most devastatingly diabolical events in human history. It is further estimated that this already deplorably disturbing death toll rose to 140,000 by the end of 1945. The city of Hiroshima in Japan became the world’s very first air to ground target of a nuclear attack. At around 08:15 on that fateful morning a B29 bomber plane, Enola Gay, dropped a nuclear bomb onto Hiroshima which, by the end of 1945, had killed 40% of the total population of the city. The powers at be had the audacity to name the bomb LITTLE BOY. This incredulously indignant irony is completely lost on my insufferably empathetic heart. To add further insane insult to inhumane injury, just three days later on 9 August 1945, hideous history repeated itself and Nagasaki, another Japanese city, became the world’s second air to ground target of a nuclear attack. By the end of 1945, 70,000 people in Nagasaki had