I recently returned to Hiroshima, inspired by the resilience of the Japanese people and the Japanese peace movement. There was also humility and anger at what the government that speaks in my name once inflicted there and is preparing for the future.
Along the way, I couldn’t help but think about the ways that Hiroshima and Fukushima are linked, not only by the deadly radiation which kills across generations, but the reality that, like the decision to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, human ambition and greed, not simply nature, were responsible for what the Japanese have suffered recently from the nuclear meltdowns.
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