Tag: Nagasaki

By C. Uday Bhaskar, August 6 is etched in an apocalyptic manner on the global consciousness given the nuclear enormity that engulfed the unsuspecting residents of Japan's Hiroshima on that day in 1945. Three days later Nagasaki met the same fate, though tragically August 9 receives even lesser attention from a jaded world whose attention span often oscillates from one tweet to another. The "national herd" in every major demographic cluster is episodically led from one sensational but banal event to another and the collective danger that the nuclear weapon poses...