August 9th (Nagasaki)

Yesterday (August 8) we were in the city of Nagasaki. It's a beautiful little place, with a charming streetcar and centuries of important history, especially in Japan-Dutch relations during the Edo Period. And yet, of course, its most famous role in history is now, and very likely will remain, as the target of humanity's second atomic bombing of other humans. We visited the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb…