The Anti-Manhattan Project

NY Dispatch Day 144: 75 years ago today the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A few days later they targeted Nagasaki. The combined bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, primarily civilians. Survivors suffered the short term consequences of painful death by acute radiation syndrome (ARS), and the long term effects of increased cancer, birth defects, and psychological trauma. These have remained the only two bombs that were used in warfare a...