Atomic bomb – never again, please

THE EDITOR, Madam:

Earlier this week, I walked through the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. I saw so many images of death and destruction as a result of the atomic bomb dropped in 1945. The argument that it brought the war to an earlier finish has merit but the children killed and burnt had done nothing to deserve this.

We had all thought and hoped that this was an evil from 80 years ago but now Putin is threatening to use atomic weapons again, and they are far more powerful now.

If anyone wants to define evil, then the threat of using an atomic bomb would meet the criteria.

Never again, please.

DENNIS FITZGERALD

Melbourne, Australia