How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb

All that remains: The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall – which was eventually preserved as the Hiroshima A-bomb Dome – is one of the few standing structures in this photo taken by the US military at an unspecified time after the Aug 6, 1945, atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Photo: EPA/ Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Japan is the only country in the world to have been devastated by three nuclear catastrophes.

First, the two atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug 6 and 9, 1945, during World War II; and then a Level 7 nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima on March 11, 2011, caused by a tsunami.