Posted on 08/09/2015 10:16:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, shortly after 8:00 a.m. local time, a lone American B-29 was conducting what seemed to be a reconnaissance flight at high altitude over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. At about 16 minutes after 8:00, the aircraft released an object over the centre of town. Attached to parachutes, the object floated down slowly enough to give the four-engine Boeing Superfortress time to turn and lumber out of the airspace.
The atom bomb exploded at about 1,900 feet above the centre of Hiroshima. The devastation was cataclysmic. Immediate casualties, dead and injured, numbered approximately 115,000. This didnt include another 60,000 who would succumb within a year to the effects of radiation. Three days later, a second similar device was released over the city of Nagasaki, with only slightly less devastating results.
Seventy years passed since the first and only atomic bombs to be used against human populations had been deployed. It wasnt a modern-day Napoleon, but U.S. President Harry S. Truman who had the warship Indianapolis load the Hiroshima bomb, nicknamed Little Boy (the crew called the Nagasaki bomb Fat Man) for delivery to Tinian Island in the northwestern Pacific.
It wasnt at the command of a megalomaniacal tyrant, but a former small-town shopkeeper, that a weapon capable of wiping out all life on Earth came to be transferred into the bomb-bay of an aircraft whose pilot, Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, named his Superfortress Enola Gay after his mother. The most destructive force in human history was first deployed by ordinary people serving the worlds greatest democracy.
It took another week for Japanese Emperor Hirohito to address his loyal subjects in the Jewell Voice broadcast of August 15, announcing his countrys acceptance of the Joint Declaration of Potsdam...
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I was stationed in Germany in the 60’s and I thought the same thing. Someone said that these Germans,Japanese are not their parents or grandparents and that is true.
I have an Uncle still laying at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. The Japs are lucky we stopped at Two.
Qom would be a better target than Tehran.
Japan routinely carried out atrocities for a decade and then cry foul when the nukes dropped.
They are still very much hated in Asia, especially in China. I visited China and they have propaganda TV shows about WWII that continue to paint the Japanese in a very unfavorable light. The Koreans may not be as hostile, but they too have no love for the Japanese.
If it were not for American power (and nukes), China might yet settle their old score. In many ways, we are their best friend.
Dad was a WWII combat veteran of N. Africa, Sicily, Italy & Germany. War is HELL! If a country don’t want hell, they better sit down & shut up BEFORE they start something.
I think going back to the early 20s in China.
After the defeat was announced, the wording to Japan's military was deliberately ambiguous: operators of ships and submarines were left with "autonomous" orders. When a US ship came upon a huge submarine on the surface, the captain (and maybe neither captain) wasn't sure of his next action. (But ended peacefully).
Dropping it on the Holy City of Mecca would probably be the most effective way to bring them to leash.
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Long overdue...
That needed to be done on 9/12/01.
Not politically correct, but screw the PC libs. This would be a highly effective way to serve notice to muslims that they have to rein in the islamic radicals. That as long as muslims act as terrorists, that we treat their religion as a religion of death that civilized peoples will no longer tolerate in our midst.
"Oh, a lot of innocent civilians would die!" say the PC libs. A lot of innocent civilians died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki also. But it got the attention of the Japanese government to throw in the towel. Taking out Mecca would have the same effect. Show them we mean business by putting a stranglehold on their religious underpinnings until they rein in the radicals and quit murdering non-muslims. Take out all large islamic centers, one by one as needed until they reform their "religion". And keep eliminating the islamic soldiers anywhere they show their heads; no imprisonment, just elimination.
Yes, and yes.
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