Americans should know and learn the facts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper reported as follows.

Fifty-five percent of the respondents said the United States had no choice but to drop the atomic bombs on the two cities in August 1945, while 34 percent said the nuclear attacks were "a mistake."

The telephone survey, conducted on people aged 18 or older by U.S. research firm Harris Interactive Inc. from Dec. 2 to 6, was commissioned by The Asahi Shimbun. It received 1,009 valid responses.

The news didn’t disappoint me. I thought 34 percent of Americans become to think the nuclear attacks were wrong at last. Those who think they didn’t have any choice have had little information about the facts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We, knowing the facts, should tell Americans them. I hope the day, most of Americans think the nuclear attacks are a war crime, will come.

I went to ROK and talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a Korean professor of history education last October. He said he had thought the atomic bombings were that the Japanese had no one but themselves to blame until 15 years ago. But I went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and heard the facts from victims of atomic bombs. I came to understand atrocity to kill many civilians.

Only by watching a Mushroom cloud on TV and remembering some passages on history textbooks, we can’t realize the facts. We must see the scenes and hear from the victims.  We should imagine if you and your families lived there at the time, what we would think about it. No reasons warrant killing of the common citizen by a nuclear weapon. President Obama should come to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Americans should know and learn the facts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.



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