Text Messages | On second thoughts
Not achieving the distinction of being first but instead coming second tends to cause dismay. But in the case of the Nagasaki bombing it also meant being last, which is a blessing.
Hiroshima
Text Messages | Morality and the atom bomb
One of the scientists whose work made possible the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered a last-minute attack of conscience and campaigned against the looming mass murder.