Irish Examiner view: Will we ever learn from history?
August 6 will mark the 80th anniversary of the US dropping a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima in Japan, killing 100,000 of its citizens. File picture: AP
In a little over a month, we will mark the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the first nuclear bomb by the Americans on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, destroying it and killing 100,000 of its citizens.
It was August 6, 1945, when the B-29 Superfortress bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the bomb.
