80 Years After, The World Still Has Much to Learn from Hiroshima

World marks 80 years since US dropped atomic bomb on Japan as global powers still trade nuclear threats In Japanese summer, the cicadas scream in the sweltering air, their voices tangled with the memories of August 1945. In that same heat, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were engulfed in light and silence, and the world stepped into the nuclear age. Each summer, the cicadas’ cry echoes the voices of hibakusha—the atomic bomb survivors—whose call for lasting peace continues to resonate across generations. In 1947, Henry L. Stimson, the American Secretary of War at the time of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and…