Unleashed Voice: Lessons from Hiroshima / Part I

A copper vase, an atomic bomb and the rest is history—from which we can all learn so much in these parlous times. The first of two parts.

The so-called tactical nuclear weapons that Russia has threatened to use against Ukraine range up to 1,000 kilotons. ‘Little Boy,’ the weapon dropped to utterly devastating effect on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, had a yield of barely 15 kilotons. On July 6, less than one month earlier, the first (test) bomb, code-named Trinity, was detonated on the Alam…