Posted on 07/26/2005 12:26:25 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
NAGASAKI (Kyodo) The Japan Map Center has found 29 negatives of aerial photographs of Nagasaki taken by the U.S. military a day after it dropped an atomic bomb on the city in 1945, in a discovery expected to help reveal the immediate effects of the attack.
The pictures, taken by a U.S. reconnaissance plane flying over the devastated city Aug. 10, 1945, were found at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
They are believed to be the first aerial photos of Nagasaki taken a day after the bombing to be made public. The oldest such photos, taken Aug. 12, are currently kept by the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, the map company said.
Last December, Japan Map Center officials found documents showing the flight route of the reconnaissance plane and black-and-white negatives at a branch of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland, according to Kunio Nonomura, head of the center.
The officials brought back digitized copies of the negatives to Japan.
The map firm will publish some of the photos in an extra edition of its monthly magazine issued Aug. 1.
Seems to have cleaned up the place quite nicely.
Mecca needs a dose, as does Tehran, and a couple other places.
Medina, Karachi, Lahore, and Damascus for a start
oh, and before i forget, I would be so damned tempted to add Paris to the list... but their nukes will come from within I am sure.
Nagasaki was a baby nuke by todays standards. what we would toss today is 100 times more powerfull than that. Same goes for what we might expect to be detonated here. Depends on how much fision material they get their hands on.
Having visited Peace Park in Hiroshima and seen the museum there, this photo crystalizes the very reasons the Bush Administration should be exercising more control over the US borders.
It's a matter of time before the heart of one of our cities looks like the aftermath of Nagasaki. I pray that it will never happen, but the hate that has been sewn among the jihadists assures us that the past is prologue.
It's easy to sit in the comfort of our homes and recklessly talk about nuking various places, but try visiting one of those places and see if you still agree. It's not as exciting as it may seem when you understand the suffering and misery of the victims. We can discuss the pros and cons forever and I see both sides of the argument.
In the long run, atomic/nuclear weapons are not and cannot be the playthings of mad, immature minds. I don't doubt that Truman wrestled with the question of dropping the bombs on Japan, and I doubt that he took much pleasure in their result. And, yet, reluctantly, the use of those weapons in that circumstance was the right call in the final analysis.
God willing, we will never see a repetition of those bombings.
Probably not. The biggest weapons that its practical to smuggle in are the aledged ex Soviet Suitcase bombs which are rather small devices (to the extent they exist at all).
Anything bigger would require a ship or plane for delivery, and those are getting pretty close scrutiny these days.
Military nukes are a whole lot smaller than you think. What once in Hiroshima took a plane to drop, we now shoot out of a cannon and it is a lot more powerful.
Think cannon shell, and then think lunch box.
Also looks like Mecca and Medina need to look soon...
black and white says it all....Just a two picture lesson in how thousands of American troops lives were saved...
The buildings themselves will probably stand up quite well. The church at ground zero in Nagasaki was one of the few stone buildings in the city. After the bombing, its walls were still standing. IIRC, a large part of the damage from the two blasts over Japan were from fire afterwards, not from the actual explosions.
I'd really like to see the high res images if they are made available on the net. Those above photos look like about 12x20 city blocks, and the destruction is total all the way out to the edge of the second photo... So how far does the "nothing but dust and splinters" area go? And you know that for at least a mile after the buildings remained intact, that everyone died soon afterward.
Scary stuff.
Did anyone see the videos posted a while back of the cameras on board the old WW2 ships during a nuclear test? It's creepy watching a warship hull melt and disintegrate in just a couple of seconds.
Doesn't Europe remind you of a person so taken with a cult that they will drink poisioned Kool Aid of their own free will?
True, but I suspect modern buildings are far more resistant to this kind of thing than Japanese buildings were then.
But, if you are a kilometer from a 1 megaton, I dont care if you live in a steel ball, you are toast anyway. I just suspect the damage radius will be smaller.
Kinda a moot point. Nukes will fry the world economy from 10,000 miles away. One thing about terrorists, the economy is their prime target. If they cannot build it, they want to destroy it.
It's a bully in a sandbox mentality.
Thank you President Truman!! (The last democrat with the balls to protect American lives). To the Japanese - Paybacks are hell!! You got what you so richly deserved.
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