Friday, July 27, 2007
War → WWII → Victim of atomic bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under US President Harry S. Truman. On August 6, 1945, the first choice target, Hiroshima, was having clear weather. At 8:15 a.m. (local time), the Enola Gay's door sprang open and dropped "Little Boy." The bomb exploded 1,900 feet above the city and only missed the target, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 feet. Staff Sergeant George Caron, the tail gunner, described what he saw: "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside... It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city..." The cloud is estimated to have reached a height of 40,000 feet.
Video: Download "hiroshima_atomic_bombing.wmv"
Hiroshima's population has been estimated at 350,000; approximately 70,000 died immediately from the explosion and another 70,000 died from radiation within five years. A survivor described the damage to people: "The appearance of people was... well, they all had skin blackened by burns... They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn't tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back... They held their arms bent [forward] like this... and their skin - not only on their hands, but on their faces and bodies too - hung down... If there had been only one or two such people... perhaps I would not have had such a strong impression. But wherever I walked I met these people... Many of them died along the road - I can still picture them in my mind -- like walking ghosts..."
Your Comments
| Merissa , Knistely |
| canadian girl of peace , needs to shutupp .. who's with me ?!?! |
| 2012-05-03 04:53:16 |
| rachel |
| we are learning about this right now in world studies. |
| 2012-05-03 04:50:22 |
| Nev |
| Canadian Girl of Peace, whilst I echo your sentiments that this was a truly terrible occurrence, bombing Hitler's bunker at this time would have meant killing Allied soldiers. Hitler himself had been dead 3 months before Hiroshima and Berlin was occupied by Allied troops . It would have also had a huge effect on neighbouring countries that were allied with the USA. That aside, dropping a nuclear bomb on Germany instead of Japan would not have been any more morally correct. Innocent people would have been victims in that case too. Nowadays for example, it would not be any more correct to nuke North Korea than say Switzerland. Both would be equally abominable. |
| 2012-05-02 01:34:54 |
| .... |
| It makes no sense to obliterate innocent people and scar the ones to come for life, where as all they did was kill the soldiers who were involved. Makes no sense. |
| 2012-05-02 01:00:53 |
| Meow catz |
| Oh god |
| 2012-05-01 23:05:37 |
| japan |
| He is a patient of leprosy. Is not a victim of the atomic bomb. http://www.garando.jp/event/2005/05_0220.html |
| 2012-05-01 15:10:52 |
| alex |
| Whatever, I think you're the most stupid person in the world, you just receive a little bit of scaryness with september 11 and all the world felt your pain as a country, maybe one day you'll going to receive a powerful bomb like tzar bomb and i'm sure that it's not going to be funny for anyone, Don't be so stupid, in the long run we are ALL HUMAN BEINGS |
| 2012-05-01 07:16:05 |
| Whatever |
| Keep talking shit *Canadian Girl of Peace* and the USA will annex Canada! And you couldn't do SHIT about it either! |
| 2012-04-30 01:18:04 |
| Canadian Girl of Peace |
| This is terrible, war is terrible. Anyone who thinks it was okay to nuke Hiroshima is an cruel idiot. Instead of them why not Hitler's hideout? He killed innocent women and children...just like you killed innocent women and children when you set off that bomb. It was innocent women and children who died in this too... Americans can be so ignorant. -This is a 10 minute animated video about one survivors story (he was a boy at the time) who watched his father and siblings and friends die because of the bomb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJZ6nwxD38&feature =related -This is un-related to the attacks on Japan but is a short propaganda film about Nazi's. It was created by Disney actually. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscree n&v=D8bCuNiJ-NI |
| 2012-04-24 23:41:04 |
| Srs? |
| Robert.K You need professional help. And some proper education. |
| 2012-04-24 18:26:37 |
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