Directory of Lost Causes (By Quentin S. Crisp)

Black Rain

Today is the 62nd anniversary of the first use of atomic weaponery on humans; the bomb known as 'Little Boy' was dropped on Hiroshima at 8.15 AM.



Japan has the second largest economy in the world, but no nuclear weapons. Japan maintains a threefold non-nuclear policy against the possession, production and import of nuclear weaponry. This is self-imposed. The American-drafted constitution of Japan, in its Article Nine, also forbids Japan from unprovoked military intervention. Article Nine was compromised recently when the Japanese were persuaded to send forces to Iraq to aid the American invasion.

If you would like to learn more about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you could do worse than to start with Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain