‘Good news’ in journey to rid world of nuclear: Green MEP for Offaly Reporter: '); '); Anti-nuclear activist, MEP Grace O’Sullivan welcomes breakthrough, saying ‘there’s still a long way to go though.’ It’s over 75 years since the appalling news broke that the heavily-populated Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been the victims of nuclear attack. These were the dramatic actions that earmarked the closing days of our second World War. The impacts of the bombs, so sickeningly dubbed Little Boy and Fat Man, were ferocious. The playful name tags belied the cruel efficiency with which those man-made harbingers of death undertook their assigned duty. In the immediate wake of the explosions over 200,000 people perished. Many others were left with horrific, life-changing injuries. Pictures of the gnarled flesh of people who suffered severe thermal burns are as disturbing today as they were then.