Yoichi shimatsu bio

Editor's note: Yoichi Shimatsu is a former editor of The Japan Times Weekly and founding faculty member of journalism schools in Hong Kong and Beijing, whose science studies were at the world’s top organic chemistry school in Purdue University. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.

From both ethical and scientific perspectives, the yearly commemorations of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombings are part of a larger historical cycle.

The A-bombings were meted out as “cruel justice against cruelty” to punish the wartime militarist state for its massacres of civilians at Nanjing, in east China and dozens of lesser-known places on the Asian continent.

If cause-and-effect, or karma, exists on the scientific curve, those mushroom clouds were a consequence of Japan’s virtually unknown role as a first-mover in the creation of atomic weapons, years before the Hahn-Strassman theoretical suggestion of atom-splitting in Racking one of