Today in History

IN honor of the day, I will be preparing supper in the microwave. The bombing of Hiroshima killed between 90,000 and 126,000 people. A horrific number, but keep in mind, the fire bombing of Tokyo on March 9-10 killed 100,000 people in a single night. That raid, followed closely by the bombing of Nagasaki brought about the surrender of Japan and likely spared millions of Japanese lives and the estimated million soldiers and Marines it would have taken to invade the Japanese mainland.