“Oh you masters of war. You that build the big bombs.” – a lyric from the song Masters of War by Bob Dylan
A Brief Comment from Doug draper at Niagara At Large
Posted August 6th, 2025
The fiery mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th, 1945
It was eighty years ago today that the first nuclear bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. A few days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
Together, these two bombs – the only nukes so far in history to be dropped on human populations – killed somewhere between 150,000 and 250,000 people.
Since then, the number of countries that possess nuclear weapons has increased from just one – the United States when those to bombs were dropped in the summer of 1945 – to at least six, including the likes of Russia and China, with regimes like North Korea and Iran working away at building a nuclear arsenal of their own.
Hiroshima, after the bomb
Many foreign affairs experts out there have concluded that we are just damn lucky that we have so far avoided a war that has not gone nuclear and possibly destroyed the world as we know it.
Just the same, what another sad comment on the human race that we seem to have all the time and money in the world to create ever more lethal weapons of mass destruction and we still haven’t been able to find a cure for cancer or effectively address climate change or poverty, homelessness and hunger.
This 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima is one more reminder to this commentator, anyway, of what a flawed species we are.
To hear the powerful lyrics of Bob Dylan’s 1963 song Masters of War, click on the screen immediately below –
I can’t help repeating it again – 
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