August 6, 1945 - "Little Boy" exploded over Hiroshima.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and America's Immoral Addiction to Nuclear Weapons
by Walter C. Uhler | Aug 6 2007

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On August 6, 1945,-- sixty-two years ago today -- "Little Boy" exploded over Hiroshima. "People...within a half a mile of the hypocenter were vaporized or reduced to lumps of charcoal." The city became a living hell. "Outlines of bodies were permanently etched as white shadows in black nimbus on streets and walls, but the bodies themselves had disappeared....there were innumerable corpses without apparent injury. Parts of bodies held their ground, like two legs severed below the knees, still standing. Many of the dead were turned into statues, some solid and others waiting to crumble at a touch."

Six-year old Junko Kayashige was sitting by a windowsill when "Little boy" exploded. She survived, but found herself "walking on the roofs of houses which were smashed flat on the ground...there were people staggering...I could not tell men from women. The skin of their bodies and even their faces had peeled off and dangling, looking like seaweed."

On August 9, 1945, "Fat Man" exploded over Nagasaki. Unlike in Hiroshima, where approximately 100,000 men, women and children died within weeks of the atomic blast - and another 100,000 during the next few months - the bomb over Nagasaki took but some 74,000 lives by the end of 1945.

Fourteen-year-old Senji Yamaguchi survived the Nagasaki blast to recount seeing the explosion "crush a pregnant woman against a wall and tear apart her abdomen. I could see her and her unborn baby dying. The blast instantly knocked down many homes and buildings as well. Mothers and children were trapped beneath the burning wreckage. They called out each other's names, and the mothers would cry out, pleading for someone to save their children. No one was able to help them, and they all burned alive."

Sixteen-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi was riding his bicycle when "Fat Man" exploded. Tossed into the air by the blast, he managed to drag himself into a basement, where he groaned in agony for three nights. "A grotesque photograph of Taniguchi's tortured and bloody body was taken by the U.S. Army. Decades later, when his wounds had yet to fully heal, the heart-rending and now subversive picture (see link here:
http://users.dickinson.edu/~history/product/steele/taniguchi.htm

was banned from the Smithsonian Museum's 50th anniversary commemoration of the atomic bombings."

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Kore wa daikanashi no hi.

Me too. This is the saddest day.

We do it every year. And we had a very large turnout this year.

This is a very sad day indeed.

:popcorn:

As you enjoy your popcorn, remember what the prezzle
nearly did to the Pres.

Tesha

Killing innocent people is entertaining to you?

I think I already know the answer to that.

:puke:

history. Sorry you find that so amusing.

My initial (and subsequent) post show that I find the DU discussions on that subject matter amusing.

What if the rest of the world still respected us. What if we didn't solve problems by violence.

Yes threads like that are so asinine. :sarcasm:

:popcorn:

remember very well seeing pictures in the papers and watching Movietone News in the theaters about it. I was only 12 years old, but those visions have stayed with me ever since. I remember the name of the airplane--Enola Gay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_%28CA-35%29


So many people died, or lived in mental and physical torment for the rest of their lives because of the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan.

The cruiser had just dropped off parts of the A-Bomb on Tinian and was departing Guam
for the Leyte Gulf area, to join Vice Admiral Oldendorfs squadron.

The US Navy did not attach a destroyer escort to the USS Indianapolis, and it left Guam
alone.
A Japanese submarine torpedoed it.
Dropping of the A-Bomb had nothing to do with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis

The decision to drop the bomb was the cause of the sinking of the ship. You yourself just wrote that and acknowledged it.

No thats not what I said

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis did not happen because the US dropped the bomb on Hiroshima

It was hit by a kamikaze and was at Mare Island for repairs, and was going to sail to Guam
anyway, so they had the ship carry components to the bomb.

The reason the USS Indianapolis sunk is because a Japanese submarine torpedoed it.

If the heavy cruiser had a destroyer escort, this might not have happened.

That's what it is.

making little boys part of their dirty deed

men are so full of themselves

A tricycle, a school uniform, a stack of rice bowls fused by the heat, a watch frozen in time...