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62 years ago today one atomic bomb was dropped under the sky of Hiroshima. 400 thousand people were terminated at one second.

Many US articles justify dropping the atomic bomb saying it accelerated the end of war and made lessen the number of casualties both in US army and Japanese nationals who were likely to resist in the event of US army landing and they also introduced the number of casualties who were dead at the time of Tokyo incendiary carpet bombing, that is 100 thousand civilians.

Many Japanese people and newspapers accused of dropping the atomic bomb in humanity perspective. But I think it was inevitable to use the ultimate force to put an end to the war no matter how many people were victimised by this act.

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  • No excuse.

    Little girls and old men paid unimaginably for this - and America became the wielder of Satanic fire.

    Two wrongs don't make a right - they set the universe on fire, and destroy the inner connection that makes a being human.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by mercedo ( 822671 ) *
      Sufferers from this bomb still alive. They are all already very old. No survivers will be here after more ten or twenty years. Does someone intend to make another new victims after no living witnesses exist?
  • In my opinion purposedly targeting unarmed civilians seems a bit terroristic.
    • Any more than the Japanese targeting of women for their sex-slave emporiums was?

      Sometimes, it takes terror to fight terror- that's what we have forgotten in the current world war, and it's why we will lose.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Mantorp ( 142371 ) *
        I'm not defending anything the Japanese did during this or any other wars. I'm jut pointing out that there's a difference in civilian and military targets.
        • I'm jut pointing out that there's a difference in civilian and military targets.

          I'll agree with that. With the stipulation that those who target civilians, should expect their own families to be targeted by an angered world.
  • We were not there. We were not reading about the thousands of American lives lost every day due to the war. Or that the Japanese civilians will (and did) fight rather than surrender. Or that in preparation for the attack on Japan, purple hearts were ordered and only recently has the stock been used up form that purchase - 60 years ago. Is it more humane to kill a city, or to kill everyone on the island(s)? - Please before you judge history, read about it and understand it.
    • In a few days, we will celebrate the 2nd drop. If not for fog, that bomb would have been dropped on Tokyo (Nagasaki was the reserve target). We now know that if not for that fog, the seismic reality of Japan means that we would have sunk the three main islands with a single bomb- millions would have drowned as the Eastern Shelf broke off the continental plate. The resulting quakes would have taken care of the west coast and the northern and southern islands.

      We came close to exterminating the Japanese Ho
      • See Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]

        Wrong: Kokura was the primary target, and Nagasaki was the secondary.

        Does everyone that is anti-atomic not get the facts straight?

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by mercedo ( 822671 ) *
          Many years ago I read tens of English articles about the initial target prior to Nagasaki, and many suggested it was Kokura and only poor visibility prevented them to drop it under the sky of Kokura.
  • From: Wikipedia: [wikipedia.org]
    On August 6, 1945, the nuclear weapon Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by the crew of the American Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 70,000 people. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and 6.6 percent severely damaged.In the following months, an estimated 60,000 more people died from injuries, and hundreds more from radiation.
  • The Wikipedia article on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings [wikipedia.org] has more information. Rather than instant incineration of four hundred thousand people, that appears to be something like the aggregate death toll from both attacks. The instant death toll in Hiroshima was something more on the order of seventy to ninety thousand people. Not that that makes it much better, but I think that it is important to ba accurate - particularly when arguing the justification, or lack thereof, for the attacks.

    The W

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by mercedo ( 822671 ) *

      We tend to think people who speak different languages are different from themselves, or different animal other than themselves. World War II was the war over the hegemony who is to rule the world. In Europe Germans and Russians fought over it, in Asia Chinese and Japanese, in Pacific Americans and Japanese. Winners became the permanent member of UN Security council, and their influences have been determining the fate of the world in the 21st century.

      Such massacres took place before the unity of Japan aroun

      • That's an interesting point about languages. I have studied Russian, Gaelic (Irish), and Chinese. In addition to that, I have studied history fairly extensively. I think that the question is not whether or not we have that strong identity, but rather whether or not we perceive it. Perhaps, in this case, the perception is the reality.

        Language determines many aspects of one's conceptual map, which often leads to misunderstandings and conflicts - and the malconception (like misconception, but actively bad

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by mercedo ( 822671 ) *

      '400 thousand people were terminated at one second'

      As you pointed out 70 thousand people were dead instantly as a result of the first blast in both cities. 400 thousand people are the aggregated number of death toll caused by this bomb from 1945 to the present. One second poetically meant half a century judging from the eternal time line of human history.

  • The only good thing that came from them was our fear of using them since then up to now. Expect much more horror when that fear is gone, replaced by hate and arrogance and egotistical pride. That goes equally for all sides! The American president is every bit as terrifying as the Iranian and Pakistani one, if not more so, since it's being discussed rather openly. And that includes all the present front runners in the upcoming election. It's almost a sure thing that the US will draw first blood with the nuke

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