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.
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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
| Louis Lipsky |
| Imagine if an evil empire got their hands on such a weapon, Iran for example. |
| 2012-09-11 14:09:35 |
| Klaatu |
| The comments on here from jingoistic, heartless, callous and insane dolts are both sad and disgusting. There really is no hope for Mankind if the vast number of the comments expressed here are representative of the majority view. |
| 2012-09-11 10:50:10 |
| Billybob |
| rehguregvuhdfhcbfdvbfg ugrgvkdfnvndfnv n t9gjrtjgmrt9uhjr98hrthtiyhj 9uyt g 9t g87rth 8gjrt0g rhuy 805yhugoiyt |
| 2012-09-09 13:00:15 |
| Timothy Alchemy Freeman |
| And Japan should never need to think of revenge... The U.S. already got their punishment in the great depression. Just as China did not need to get revenge because Japan got theirs in the Bombings... Maybe we should learn from this... War SUCKS. |
| 2012-09-08 17:15:19 |
| Timothy Alchemy Freeman |
| There is no such thing as a good war. The Japanese soldiers raped and slaughtered thousands of people in China and Korea. Watch the Movie, "The Flowers of War" to get an Idea. I do not promote what the Japanese leaders did nor do I agree with what the United States Leaders did... Lots of innocents get mistreated in wars. One can definitely say Karma is fact. One can definitely argue they deserved it but one can also argue that it was not right to be the one to provide that judgement. Killing, raping, pillaging, bombing, etc can never truly be justified, but if a nation does these things on anthers home land they most definitely should expect that it will come back to haunt their land in the end. Karma. Us civilians get screwed. |
| 2012-09-08 17:11:32 |
| Darrell |
| It is so sad that citizens become victims during war. However,....if there had never been a Pearl Harbor attack, there would never have been an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thank the Japanese warlords for this. |
| 2012-09-07 05:30:31 |
| ED |
| So, you seem to be talking about restarting violence. Against America? Are you blind people? You should understand : nobody wants to fight against particles or waves. That's the lesson,isn't it? |
| 2012-09-07 00:16:51 |
| Rohan |
| No country deserves this , the USA must pay for what they did , and please do not compare pearl harbor with this ! For years these people had to deal with shit the government did , its not the people who bombed pearl harbor ! |
| 2012-09-06 08:19:29 |
| kharl |
| its world war, so they can do what they want because japan attack pearl harbor so USA fire back, by the way, past is past |
| 2012-09-06 06:14:22 |
| mr. kandaey fuckyou! |
| fuckyou mr. kandaey |
| 2012-09-03 09:42:05 |
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