Posted on 08/05/2015 5:44:08 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft.
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Don’t start a war if you don’t want to finish it.
Residents in the Japanese city of Hiroshima are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb being dropped by a US aircraft.
THAT BY THE WAY.... saved projected millions of american service mens lives... not to speak of many Japanese lives..
that bomb was a LIFE SAVER... compared to the FEW lives it took..
It was Shock and Awe.. completely..
Shocked the japanese military and awed the idiot they had as an Emperor..
“It should have been Tokyo , not Hiroshima”
Hiroshima was a better strategic military target. Tokyo had already been subject to heavy conventional bombing but Hiroshima remained untouched, and needed to be targeted.
I went to Hiroshima as a Marine in the early 70s. Civilian clothes and rang the bell. No problems except we drank to much warm sake and had to return to our base drunk!
The thing is that we needed him to live so we could easily pacify, after surrender, what had become one big national death cult, obedient only the emperor.
Hey, Japan, you started it. Get over it!
Perhaps, instead of helping you become a post-war economic powerhouse, the US should have treated Japan the way Japan treated people it conquered.
Lowest we forget.
Now Obama is doing the surrendering to “one big national death cult, obedient only to the emperor” except substitute Iran and the Caliphate, and ISIS and the Caliphate for “emperor”.
Approx 250,000 dead....worth it!!
I remember the day well. I was 13 years old and we all cheered.
Now I feel ashamed that I did that, but the adults were happy that the end was near.
War is hell.
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We’re coming up on the 70th anniversary (August 6 and 9, 1945) of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, consequently I’ve been reading up on those horrendous (but necessary) events. I always thought Truman was a bit unfeeling about his decision. However, in moments of candor he would shake his head and mutter, “all those women and children!” He also suffered from severe migraines as a result of the decision. It was a simple decision; either the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki must die or the flower of American youth would die in an invasion of Japan scheduled for later that year. Re: Fat Man (plutonium implosion bomb, Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima was a gun barrel U-235 bomb), dropped on Nagasaki August 9, 1945 - 20 kiloton, or 20,000 tons of TNT. The temperature at its core was 60 million degrees centigrade, ten thousand times hotter than the surface of the sun, and its blinding flash was far brighter. It created a pressure of 100 billion atmospheres (atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14.7 p.s.i.). That’s a tremendous blast from the destruction of mere .7 grams of matter. The amount of plutonium actually undergoing fission was lighter than the weight of a dollar bill. Grasp that and you can fathom E=MC^2. All told probably 340,000 Japanese died as a result of those two bombs, more than all American deaths in WW II.
One such casualty is referenced below. The photograph below was taken by an American photojournalist, Joe O’Donnell, in Nagasaki in 1945. He informed a Japanese interviewer about this picture:
“I saw a boy about ten years old walking by. He was carrying a baby on his back. In those days in Japan, we often saw children playing with their little brothers or sisters on their backs, but this boy was clearly different. I could see that he had come to this place for a serious reason. He was wearing no shoes. His face was hard. The little head was tipped back as if the baby were fast asleep.
The boy stood there for five or ten minutes. The men in white masks walked over to him and quietly began to take off the rope that was holding the baby. That is when I saw that the baby was already dead. The men held the body by the hands and feet and placed it on the fire. The boy stood there straight without moving, watching the flames. He was biting his lower lip so hard that it shone with blood. The flame burned low like the sun going down. The boy turned around and walked silently away.”
Yes, I know that those bombs were necessary but these photos are heart rending. I would have done the same thing. Unfortunately, in all out total war the innocent must die.
http://kenpro-kobe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/nagasaki1945boy.jpg
The three children were orphaned by the bombing of Nagasaki:
https://tokyo5.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/nagasaki-orphans.jpg
Meanwhile the rest of Asia wishes we’d dropped more on Japan, especially, the Chinese.
With the wun in charge who would at best do nothing, China might get a stupid idea and try a few low yield ones to settle some of that bad blood. Nothing would really surprise me any more.
Yes, that firebomb raid on Tokyo in 1945 killed at least 100,000. Incidentally, the Nagasaki bomb was originally intended for Kokura which was the primary target on August 9. Fortunately for Kokura, Bockscar, sometimes called Bock’s Car (after Captain Frederick C. Bock), piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney was unable to see the target clearly due to cloud cover. Unfortunately, Nagasaki was the secondary target. This was Fat Man, the plutonium implosion type instead of the U-235 gun barrel designed Little Boy. Below is Truman’s “rain of ruin” statement on the USS Augusta following the Potsdam conference which called for the unconditional surrender of Japan. In a sense it wasn’t unconditional as the Emperor was spared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_zyvPWJBbw
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