Posted on 01/06/2010 8:59:27 PM PST by bogusname
That line has to be a joke right?
"He coulda lived another twenty years!" /s
Radiation exposure can also increase the probability of contracting some other diseases, mainly cancer, tumours, and genetic damage.
LOL- Exactly
It happened to this poor man.Radiation sickness is usually defined as damage to the body caused by a very large dose of radiation often received over a short period of time.Although radiation sickness is serious and often fatal, it’s very rare.
Not only that he worked for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. How many people in this country have sued for asbestos related cancers for working in the ship yards during WWII? Maybe the Japs didn’t use asbestos but still...
How could Hiroshima and Nagasaki be rebuilt but not Chernobal?
It would be nice if we could abolish imperialist regimes that perpetrate sneak attacks too.
Chernobyl was not one massive explosion like an a bomb. Chernobyl was a series of massive explosions and a massive fire inside the reactor where there plutonuim inside. The core actually melted down and turned into lava. Did you know that it spewed more radiation was four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
It makes you wonder what he thought about when arrived home in Nagasaki, after surviving the Hiroshima blast: “Thank goodness I am back home. It might be boring here in Dullsville Nagasaki, but at least nothing like THAT ever happens around these parts!!”.
“The Japanese had passed their intentions to capitulate through their supposedly neutral intermediary, the Soviet Union. The Russians sat on this information long enough to declare war on Japan and help themselves to some major spoils.”
Something is wrong with this timeline. The Russians were at war with Japan at that time and were not neutral. It would make no sense for the Japanese to consider Russia as a neutral country between the dates of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, because Russia was already in combat with the Japanese army on the mainland. The overtures by Japan for ending the war were made through neutral countries like Sweden and Portugal, but were rejected by the US because there were always conditional terms attached. The US had made it very clear to all parties that only an unconditional surrender was acceptable.
At the time of his death, three of his eyes were bad.
August 8, 1945 - Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
August 9, 1945 - Nagasaki is nuked.
Prior to August 8, the Soviet Union was a neutral in the war taking place in the Pacific.
I do not think that the cateracts were part of his dual exposure to huge amounts to radiation. People get caterats when they are in their fifties. You can have your retinas
“dissolved” when looking at the flash. The government sells these special goggles that protect you from an atomic flash. I have several pairs of these googles. A welder’s goggles would also protect your eyes from a flash.
The reason why the Russians were neutral because they signed a non agression pact with Japan in 1939. In fact, the Russians were waiting for a Japanese attack against that never came.
You do not get an extra eye, but if you are a fetus exposed to large amounts of radiation because of genetic damage.
You do not get an extra eye, but if you are a fetus exposed to large amounts of radiation because of genetic damage.
and if anyone deserved to live for a long time it was him. Rest in Peace.
I don't understand the "black hole" either. LOL!
He outlived, by quite a few years, his cousin “Chicken” Teriyaki, a kamikazi pilot who flew over 50 missions.
August 6: Bombing of Hiroshima shortly after 8 a.m.
August 9: At two minutes past midnight on August 9, Tokyo time, Soviet infantry, armor, and air forces had launched the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. Four hours later, word reached Tokyo that the Soviet Union had declared war on Japan.
That four hours later would be approx. 4 a.m. Japan time. The bomb was dropped on Nagasaki about seven hours later, roughly a three hour delay because the primary target (Kokura) was fogged in, there was fog on the secondary target (Mitsubishi shipyards) in Nagasaki, but the tertiary target in Nagasaki (Mitsubishi steel works) was clear.
Suggest you rent the movie "Japan's Longest Day" (Japanese with English subtitling) if you want a very accurate historical account with secondary entertainment value. It does an excellent job of covering events from late July 1945 (when the U.S. first indicated what the Japanese viewed as flexibility on the Potsdam declaration, i.e. allowing the emperor to remain on the throne) until the emperor's surrender broadcast on August 15, 1945.
Most older Japanese (and many of my generation as well) are very much aware of the Soviet duplicity in this matter even if it was whitewashed by the American media because the Soviet Union were still our allies at the time.
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