Nagasaki dans l'ombre d'Hiroshima

On a beaucoup parlé de la visite d'Obama à Hiroshima, mais Nagasaki avait aussi été durement touchée en 1945. L'article souligne avec raison qu'on peut se demander pourquoi le Président Truman a décidé de larguer une seconde bombe...

 "That Nagasaki was bombed second has made it an afterthought in the history of and debate over nuclear weapons, even though many historians argue that the bombing was harder to justify precisely because it was a repeated act.

If one accepts President Harry S. Truman’s rationale that the Hiroshima bombing was necessary to force Japan’s surrender and end the war, the moral calculus for dropping a second bomb on a civilian population three days later is more contentious.

Close to 700,000 people a year visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, compared with nearly 1.5 million at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, where Mr. Obama will lay a wreath on Friday.

Even in the office of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Council, a sticker on a cabinet illustrates the city’s secondary status — “No More Hiroshimas: End the Arms Race Now.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/world/asia/what-about-us-nagasaki-asks-as-obamas-hiroshima-trip-nears.html?ref=todayspaper