In his July 23 article, "U.S. owes A-bomb apology," Kiroku Hanai writes: "Most people in the contemporary world view Auschwitz (the Holocaust), Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the nuclear bombings) and Kosovo (ethnic cleansing) in the same context." No. Most people in the contemporary world are practical enough to see that comparisons between the Holocaust and the atomic bombs are ludicrous. As much as I abhor the concept of nuclear weapons, the atomic bombings were not some "natural disaster" that randomly happened to Japan. The contemporary world should be viewing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the proper context -- the overall context of World War II.
jacob dunlap
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