6th August.

"I have become death; the destroyer of worlds"
- Robert Oppenheimer, Director of the Manhattan Project.

"If I knew the full extent of the destructive power of the (atomic) bomb, I would have been a simple locksmith instead."
- Albert Einstein

6th August marks the day when human civilization entered the Nuclear Age. On that day, the first Atomic bomb, Little Boy, was dropped over the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

70,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and a similar number were injured. A great number more would later die from the after-effects of radiation, generations of Japanese children born deformed.

This brings into view the question of morality in war, which many have debated since the beginning of history. Can you ever be justified for killing tens of thousands of civilians, so that tens of thousands of your soldiers might live? How can the magnitude of war be ever measured or limited?

It can't be.

That's why war is hell.

Remember 6th August, 1945.