http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hiroshima/ en-us Sat, 3 May 2008 17:58:43 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2010764/posts The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three... yawoot image collections http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2010764/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 17:58:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992948/posts Has the ground zero of the nuclear age become too "normal"? Welcome to the Hotel Hiroshima. That's what my AmEx travel itinerary called it: "Hotel Hiroshima." I don't know whether this was the official name of the hotel I was booked in to. It may, more mundanely, have been shorthand for "Hotel in Hiroshima." Or it may have been the name before it was changed to what it calls itself now: "The Crowne Plaza Hiroshima," part of the global chain that has joined other American chains in this shiny rebuilt city. There's a Hiroshima KFC, a Hiroshima Mickey D's (perfect... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992948/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:35:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990174/posts Even though Barack Obama has "moved on" from the messy association that he has recently been forced to explain to man who had been his pastor for 20 years, it is clear - the voters haven't. There are legitimate questions being raised about a relationship that spans a generation and the beliefs of a man who has on multiple dozens of occasions issued some of the most vitriolic, bigoted, racism imaginable in America today. No doubt one of the most infamous video moments recently unearthed was Jeremiah Wright's use of what he cleverly believed to be a cute play on... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990174/posts#comment Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988951/posts For most white folks, indignation just doesn't wear well. Once affected or conjured up, it reminds one of a pudgy man, wearing a tie that may well have fit him when he was fifty pounds lighter, but which now cuts off somewhere above his navel and makes him look like an idiot. Indignation doesn't work for most whites, because having remained sanguine about, silent during, indeed often supportive of so much injustice over the years in this country--the theft of native land and genocide of indigenous persons, and the enslavement of Africans being only two of the best examples--we are... Lip http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988951/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:17:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987288/posts It was a clear, hot summer day on Aug. 6, 1945, when 10-year-old Kenji Kitagawa kissed his mother and brother goodbye before leaving for school. The fifth-grader didn't know that would be the last time he would see them alive. Life was forever altered for Kitagawa and the rest of the world 62 years ago, as an American B-29 bomber, flying 26,000 feet above his hometown of Hiroshima, Japan, dropped an atomic bomb. Now 73, Kitagawa travels the world as part of an effort to educate people on the destructive power of nuclear weapons. Sponsored by the Hiroshima Peace Culture... star ledger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987288/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984071/posts Claude Eatherly, who flew the re-con flight which authorized the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, spent the remainder of his life overwhelmed with guilt, made worse by being called a War Hero by everyone around him. Eatherly led a life of petty crime, passing hot checks, using stolen identification, etc. His status as a war hero made it difficult for the system to want to punish him for these "acting out" crimes, until he began to speak out in public against the atomic bomb. IMDB.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984071/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:41:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914588/posts With what measureless naivety has the twenty-first-century democratic citizen managed to be surprised when hate breaks down his door? He has—along with his father and his father’s father—witnessed, directly or indirectly, wars, murderous revolutions, and the genocides that were the last century’s specialty. How could he believe himself immune? “Not here, not me,” he told himself. But then, on September 11, 2001, Americans saw several thousand of their own assassinated, for no reason. There they were, unsuspecting, in their usual places, at work or at a café, white, black, and yellow, housewife and banker, when they suddenly realized that they... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914588/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:10:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1910858/posts Former President Harry Truman has received much opprobrium from left-wing circles in the U.S. and elsewhere for his decision to substitute two atomic bombs in place of a D-Day type invasion of Japan in 1945. It was interesting to me to observe during Ken Burn’s current documentary, “War”, that Burns reported that credible estimates of the human cost of such an invasion were in the neighborhood of 500,000 dead Americans and 6,000,000 dead Japanese. From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1910858/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:20:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1892957/posts A quick note to our readers. With the anniversary of September 11 right around the corner, bin Laden releasing a video, and the CIA warning of attacks here in the U.S. I thought I should inform readers of the "American Hiroshima Project." This "project" is a nuclear attack planned for several major U.S. cities. The investigative journalist Paul Williams wrote a book called "The Day Of Islam" covering the subject. Do a search of the title and see what you get for results. It is not a pretty picture. I pray to The One True God, Jehova, that this plot... strikebackusa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1892957/posts#comment Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:33:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883286/posts "Read this carefully as it may save your life or the life of a relative or friend. In the next few days, some or all of the cities named on the reverse side will be destroyed by American bombs. These cities contain military installations and workshops or factories which produce military goods. We are determined to destroy all of the tools of the military clique which they are using to prolong this useless war. But, unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America's humanitarian policies, the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883286/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879444/posts This year marks the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan. Every year at this time anti-American hyperbole is at a fever pitch. The revisionist historians that abound in American academia have a field day. They rant about the “racist” decision to bomb defenseless cities, all the while leaving out the complete and utter destruction of Dresden Germany. A city largely populated by white Germans! Pay no attention to Dresden they had it coming. The hue and cry from communists masquerading as professors is nearly drowned out by the cacophony of traitors who agitate for withdrawal from the mid-east... strikebackusa.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879444/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:57:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878610/posts The Religious Left, in its historical commemorations, rarely if ever recalls the great holocausts committed by the totalitarian tyrants of the 20th century. The tens of millions slain by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Tojo, not to mention the hundreds of thousands killed by Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Kim Il Sung, among others, never have reached a high level of importance. But never do the anniversaries of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and August 9, go by that the Religious Left does not mournfully don its sack cloth and ashes to atone for the mass murders... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878610/posts#comment Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:26:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876977/posts HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan marked the 62nd anniversary of Hiroshima's atomic bombing with a solemn ceremony on Monday as the city's mayor criticized the United States for refusing to give up its nuclear weapons program. Tens of thousands of elderly survivors, children and dignitaries gathered at the Peace Memorial Park, near ground zero where the bomb was dropped, to remember the more than 250,000 people who ultimately died from the blast. "Even to those who managed to survive, it was hell where they envied the dead," Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba told the crowd, describing scenes from the bombing such... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876977/posts#comment Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:13:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876947/posts The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. Since 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having been warned by Albert Einstein that Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons. By the time the United States conducted the first successful test (an atomic bomb was exploded in... History.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876947/posts#comment Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:11:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876654/posts Sixty-two years later, the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima still holds such a grip on Japan that its defense minister has had to resign simply for suggesting the attack was "unavoidable." Now, in a sign of changing times, the task of spreading Hiroshima's message to the world has been entrusted to an American, a citizen of the country that dropped the bomb on Aug. 6, 1945. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876654/posts#comment Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:44:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873220/posts 1945 : Japanese sink the USS Indianapolis On this day in 1945, Japanese warships sink the American cruiser Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst loss in the history of the U.S. navy. As a prelude to a proposed invasion of the Japanese mainland, scheduled for November 1, U.S. forces bombed the Japanese home islands from sea and air, as well as blowing Japanese warships out of the water. The end was near for Imperial Japan, but it was determined to go down fighting. Just before midnight of the 29th, the Indianapolis, an American cruiser that was the flagship of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873220/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:56:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872710/posts Scotland Yard man jailed for terror leak By Megan Levy and agencies Last Updated: 6:51pm BST 27/07/2007 A senior Scotland Yard worker has been jailed for eight months for leaking sensitive information which detailed al-Qa'eda plans to carry out Hiroshima-scale attacks on British soil. Thomas Lund-Lack, 59, a retired detective inspector with the Metropolitan Police, admitted wilful misconduct in public office by disclosing a secret Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre report to a journalist. As a civilian working at Special Branch since 2003, he had been cleared to see the "inner circle of top secret material" on Britain's security threat levels,... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872710/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:13:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859074/posts Hiroshima has preserved some of its ruins from the blast The nuclear bombs dropped by the United States on Japan in 1945 were the inevitable way to end World War II, Japan's defence minister has said. "I think it was something that couldn't be helped," said Fumio Kyuma in a speech at a university east of Tokyo. His comments sparked outrage from survivors of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The minister, who represents Nagasaki in parliament, said later that he was expressing the US view of events. In his speech, he said the US must have thought... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859074/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jul 2007 07:26:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858798/posts TOKYO — Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, a news report said Saturday. "I understand that the bombing ended the war, and I think that it couldn't be helped," Kyodo News agency quoted Kyuma as saying in a speech at a university in Chiba, just east of Tokyo. Kyuma's remarks drew immediate criticism from Japanese atomic bomb survivors. "The U.S. justifies the bombings saying they saved many American lives," said Nobuo Miyake, 78, director-general of a group of... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858798/posts#comment Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:49:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803108/posts Let’s face it. He shouldn’t be hard to find, especially from a Predator, an aerial reconnaissance vehicle that can read the minute hands of a wristwatch from an altitude of twenty-six thousand feet. Bin Laden is very tall (slightly over 6’6”) and incredibly thin (less than 150 pounds). He wears shalwart kameez (the loose-fitting tunics and baggy pants of al Qaeda and Taliban soldiers) and, when the weather is cold, he dons a camouflage jacket. Although he was born in 1957 and far from retirement age, the Al Qaeda chieftain appears to be very old. His long scraggly beard is... Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803108/posts#comment Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:13:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714891/posts SEIZURES of smuggled radioactive material capable of making a terrorist “dirty bomb” have doubled in the past four years, according to official figures seen by The Times. Smugglers have been caught trying to traffick dangerous radioactive material more than 300 times since 2002, statistics from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) show. Most of the incidents are understood to have occurred in Europe. The disclosures come as al-Qaeda is known to be intensfiying its efforts to obtain a radoactive device. Last year, Western security services, including MI5 and MI6, thwarted 16 attempts to smuggle plutonium or uranium. On two occasions... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714891/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:11:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679119/posts by Mark Finkelstein August 7, 2006 - 09:10 Because of shame over their sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans were actually awaiting payback along the lines of 9/11. You say you were unaware of any such feelings? That's only because your feeling was 'subliminal.' Your shame was 'unconscious.' Well, that, or the fact that you just don't have the same exquisitely refined sensibilities of Boston Globe columnist James Carroll. Here's how Carroll spelled it out in his column, The Nagasaki Principle: "Thus, what I am calling the Nagasaki principle consists in momentum, which obfuscates responsibility before the fact, and denial,... Boston Globe/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679119/posts#comment Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:22:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678650/posts This Day In History | World War II August 6 1945 Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender, made... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678650/posts#comment Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:27:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678663/posts 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. President Harry S Truman, announcing the news from the cruiser, Augusta, in the mid-Atlantic, said the device contained the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT and was more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest bomb used to date. An accurate assessment of the damage caused has so far been impossible due to a huge cloud of impenetrable dust covering the target. Hiroshima is one of the chief supply depots for the Japanese army.... BBC News History http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678663/posts#comment Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:59:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678554/posts OAK RIDGE - Eight peace activists were arrested Saturday after they refused to leave the entrance to the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant. They were demonstrating in remembrance of the civilians killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II and protesting the continued production of nuclear bombs. Y-12 enriched the uranium used in the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and the Oak Ridge plant now manufactures replacement parts for the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons. About 275 people participated in a Saturday rally at Oak Ridge's Bissell Park and a march to Y-12, where protesters chanted, pinned paper... Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678554/posts#comment Sun, 6 Aug 2006 04:27:04 GMT