Yesterday was the 64th anniversary of Hiroshima. There are some powerful images from the time on the Boston Big Picture site. But something that really helped me put a human face on the event was an article I read in the Independent a couple of months ago: namely an interview with Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived first Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, two days later. 240,000 other Japanese people were not so lucky.

Today, Mr Yamaguchi believes that God “planted a path” for him. “It was my destiny that I experienced this twice and I am still alive to convey what happened,” he said
“I can’t understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs. How can they keep developing these weapons?
“As a double atomic bomb survivor I experienced the bomb twice, and I sincerely hope that there will not be a third.”