Henry Abraham via Henry David Abraham’s Stuff for Public Consumption:

‘This week marks the 81st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945 an American bomber dropped the first nuclear weapon on human beings. Within minutes the two cities were engulfed in heat fifty times greater than the surface of the sun. 140,000 people died instantly from burns in the firestorm that followed, injuries from blasts, or weeks later from a new kind of killing, radiation sickness. The nuclear fission created a virtual museum of 300 radioactive isotopes previously only seen before on Earth in trace amounts. Some isotopes lasted seconds. Others will last for millions of years….’