Hiroshima - 64 years yesterday

Someone posted this link up and I found it a rather interesting viewing for a bit. Some amazing pictures...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...years_ago.html

Anyone got any other interesting links like this I can waste my friday afternoon viewing?

i just watched a 2 hour thing on history channel about it. was interesting

[Spiderman]

yeh i watched a similar thing a couple of weeks ago in the run up to the aniversary.

The biggest war crime of mass genocide ever perpetrated in humanity. Fascinating photos to look at, hopefully one day those who decided to tst their bomb on a largely civialian population will be brought to justice.

I didnt realise. I guess due to the sort of hipocrosy surrounding it (america is the only nation to use WMD's in an active war, and then in recent times made up a war as a reason to invade iraq to look for WMD's that didnt exist)

I'm a big fan of the physicist richard feynmann. He did alot of work on the theoretics of the atom bomb, and he mentions that at the time, the pupose of the work was often forgotten because the science being discovered ment far more to them than the intended application

[Spiderman]

well even the godfather of the bomb, Oppenhiemer himself was quoted to say "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" after he saw the first megaton bomb go off.

Bear in mind the desicion for it to be Hiroshima on that day was based not on a military need but simply cos the waether over that isalnd was clear and the yanks wanted the best pics of the bomb they could get. All those innocent lives taken just cos the weather was nice on that island on that day.

[timwilky]

I had an uncle on the Burma railway, he did not come back. Sorry to have to say I think the use of the bomb was justified. Millions of allied troops would have been killed trying to force a surrender by conventional means

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Bear in mind the desicion for it to be Hiroshima on that day was based not on a military need but simply cos the waether over that isalnd was clear and the yanks wanted the best pics of the bomb they could get. All those innocent lives taken just cos the weather was nice on that island on that day.

So your saying that the tradegy of Pearl Harbour was ok then? Attacking an entire fleet, with crew, whilst in port and not even really involved in the war?

And it wasn't just becuase it was "a nice day " It had been planned for a few days.



Anyone researched the bomb the Russians set off in the 60s? They halved the plutonium due to fears of the explosion, yet the one they set off was still massivly over powered from what they expected. If they had set the full power one off, owchy....

PS, I don't condone Americans actions in any war to date really. A nation of pussies, with superb equipment, and the mentality and discipline of a terrible 2 year old.

[TEC]

Its one of those places thats well worth the effort to visit, pictures just don't do it justice

Shocking pictures. I cannot comprehend how that was justified, to wipe out a city full of civillians who had done nothing wrong other than be in the wrong country at the wrong time.

[Mr Speirs]

MBK you can't believe that this was the only time civilians were targetting/killed in the war by the allies can you?

It happened in europe many many many times.

America will tell you that they used it to end the war, that is a load of rubbish they just wanted to see what it would do. It was just fortunate there was a war on. The yanks could use it on real people.

The fact is however that using the bomb did put an end to the war and save a lot of civilian and military lives despite the initial 250,000 casualties in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fact is that horrendously it was the lesser of two evils.