Hiroshima atom bomb drop reconstruction
Hiroshima atom bomb drop reconstruction

Hiroshima atom bomb drop reconstruction

To date the only attack with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare, killing as many as 140,000 people

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imb4u2imb4u2 (99 days ago)

You should also do a remix on the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Battan forced march of 500 or so civilians, 1/3 if which survived the ordeal--(see http://www.redearth.webtol.com/bataan.html) or the sacking of Hong Hong http://tinyurl.com/l2gzu8 by the Japanese killing thousands of civilians--- or perhaps the slaughter by the Japanese of thousands of Pilipinos, the hundreds of thousands of American, British and Australian soldiers and the widespread horrors caused by the Japanese in WW2. Then visualize the possibly millions more Japanese and the hundreds of thousands of Allied troops which would have been killed in the invasion of Japan, which would have been necessary if the A bomb hadn’t happened. Then again cry over the bombing of 2 cities that saved the world from continuing WW2
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unclesamUncleSam (93 days ago)

Amen.
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samsafsamsaf (42 days ago)

One question: Did the Japanese attack civilians in Pearl Harbour? Were they the target? I have visited Hiroshima in the last month. I learned that the reason it was chosen is because it they thought it didn't contain any POW personnel. Is the life of a few hundred military personnel who signed up to kill or be killed is more valuable the the life of a hundreds of thousands? When the Americans adapt such logic, that attack on civilians is justifiable, then don't be shocked when crazies like Bin Laden do 9-11 attacks on you... Violence can only breed violence ... and terrorism can only breed terrorism.. if you don't want your civilians to be attacked and terrorized, then set a good example in the times of war when you deal with other nations.
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Guest: S3n (5 days ago)

Latest comment: "I think you are missing the point here. Entirely. "
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Guest: Ladyluck Braveheart (62 days ago)

Yes, some tens of thousands died during the last two bomb attacks on Japan. And then the war was over. In spite of this laughable attempt to frame the nuclear bombings in the eyes of civilians, nurses, and children... The decision to use such awful weaponry was based on the millions of innocent people murdered, raped, robbed and enslaved by this country's leaders during their insane war. You reap what you sow. Unfortunately, their crimes were not repaid in kind.
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Guest: cherokee (73 days ago)

War at this point had claimed 400,000 americans, many many others. japanese were beaten but not interested in surrender. Anami + army men would never give up. Invasion with massive losses imminent, as evidenced by vicious fighting on the island-hopping campaign and recently concluded okinawa. Cruel? yes. Necessary? yes.
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lionzionLionZion (109 days ago)

your fuking kidding me! i just wrote the longest shit of my entire life and it turned out so good and its not here? wtf!!! well all i can say is Humans Wise Up!!!
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Guest (180 days ago)

I guess nagasaki never happened then. There is no bigger war crime in my book they saw what happened in Hiroshima but they still dropped another nuke
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Guest: Elmo (180 days ago)

This came from an ex-German SS soldier: 'If you want world peace, get ALL of the worlds leaders, industrialists, & religious leaders together. Get them to dig a deep foxhole each in a wood or copse like area, and subject them to a two hour artiliery bombardment. I guaruntee they will never want to go to war again.' Let's face it, we can't even agree to the correct day for the beginning of the new year. What hope do we have?
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Guest: paul w (180 days ago)

And to argue that THEY started it was justification is unbelievably childish. This is not a pre-teen school yard fight.
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Guest: surrender_monkey (129 days ago)

the Nazis didn't view the holocaust as a crime. Same with the bomb attacks on civilian cities, Dresden, Hamburg, London, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The perpetrators of those crimes will give reasons to justify their actions. So will the 'insurgent'. You cannot condemn terrorist attacks if you justify deliberate killing of civilian people.
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Guest: paul w (180 days ago)

There was massive arguments within the American administration on the morality of this. And within the army, etc. For good reason - it was slaughter on an unprecedented scale. As for ending the war, the Japanese had already given clear indication it wanted a halt...but the Allies wanted UNCONDITIONAL surrender. No government, no society... Some suggest this was asked so they would not surrender and the bombs could be dropped...to test the things and show the Soviets.
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Guest: Adolf Bin Ghengishitler-Amin (179 days ago)

As far as we are concerned, be it white, black, brown yellow of blue. US, African, Turkish or British or whatever. Mankind has been knocking the shit out of himself since he (or she/transgender in a poxy wheelchair for the pc among you) could walk. We will continue to do it until there is nothing and no-one left to kill. It's just about the only thing we are consistently good at. You want peace? Get rid of religion and lawyers. Oh, and that guy that hit my car yesterday. See what I mean?
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Guest (180 days ago)

they all went to a better place
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Guest: paul w (180 days ago)

To suggest Japanese crimes against humanity justify this one is garbage.
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Guest: Worried from Worriedville TXS (180 days ago)

North Korea - now there's a thought .............. Oh and Pakistan too .. don't forget about them too..... Better watch out in the coming days / months / years...
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Guest: Ian Osenthrote (M.D.) (180 days ago)

I wish to state here, and now, that I categorically believe that the two surviving bank girls (less that 300 metres from the blast !!) both had nice tits!!
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Guest: Simon (180 days ago)

"To date the only attack with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare" Except for Nagasaki 3 days later. The US Soldier who released the first bomb had no regrets until his dying day a few years ago. Why does the US have a problem with others having Nuclear weapons when to date, they are the only ones who have ever used them... and twice. Call for global nuclear disarmament in the name of those it turned into mere shadows.
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Guest: Alex (179 days ago)

oh great..."guys, put down your nuclear weapons!" Because that's realistic... The CND is all very well and good, but living in a dreamworld.
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aelred57aelred57 (180 days ago)

War crime???? You mean the 2 bombs we dropped to end the war THEY started??? I don't guess you would consider the rape of Nanking or the Bataan death march to be war crimes would you. If only we could have imposed economic sanctions, the Japs would have seen reason.
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ajhawkinsjrajhawkinsjr (180 days ago)

No one involved in either of those atrocities were punished by these attacks, only civilians were targeted by the A-bombs, on purpose. Also neither the Philippines, nor China were the creators or wielders of these devices. If you wanted to punish the forces responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, that was done par excellence by our conventional forces and nearly all the leadership of that attack died in those subsequent counter attacks.
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aelred57aelred57 (179 days ago)

We didn't kill Hirohito because he was considered divine by the Japs. That would have made them really fight to the death.
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ajhawkinsjrajhawkinsjr (179 days ago)

Your gonna keep fighting after I kill your GOD. I doubt it. Either people accepted on some level he was really a man, or they would have to accept we were capable of destroying a divine being. And anyway we made his military surrender so it never came up.
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ajhawkinsjrajhawkinsjr (179 days ago)

You're (sorry about that)
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Guest: paul w (180 days ago)

As always, view the first comment as publicity and the second as the real meaning. The first is nonsense, the same rationale as the fire bombing of London and Dresden…and Baghdad. The people simply refuse to give in. The second is the real reason; the USSR.
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Guest (147 days ago)

100% correct. The bombs were dropped to scare the Soviets. USSR was on its way to run through Japan.
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Guest: paul w (180 days ago)

It was done to 1. (1) obtaining the greatest psychological effect against Japan and (2) making the initial use sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally recognized when publicity on it is released.
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Guest: Ray Deeyayshin (179 days ago)

Think what you will of the US - I'm glad the OTHER GUYS didnt win.....
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Guest: Trevor Smith (180 days ago)

White westerners are the greatest murderers of humanity, look at the first world war, the second world war, killing of 95% of the American Indian population ..................................................- ..........................................the list is endless
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aelred57aelred57 (179 days ago)

Let's check recent history. Darfor, Eritrea, the Hutu's and Tutsi's, all Africa. And lets not forget the peaceful, serene, Muslim religion killing a few hundred of each other every day. Yep, you're right, nothing like white westerners to do some killing.
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Guest: Trevor Smith (178 days ago)

aelred57 even in recent history Americans with the help of us Brits have bombed killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi's and Afgans. before that the koreans, Cambodia and remember Vietnam ................................etc...............- .......
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aelred57aelred57 (174 days ago)

What makes you say they're innocent? If someone in your neighborhood was killing the people who came to help you rid yourself of an oppressive government, which is what you supposedly wanted, wouldn't you speak up to stop it? If you just sit back and passively agree to be a human shield for the bad guys, maybe it's your fault that you get killed in tghe return fire. If the people living in the original colonies had done what everyone in the world does now, sit around and whine about their opressive government and wait for someone else to save them, whe would still be subjects of the British Crown.
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Guest: Sorcerer (179 days ago)

Vlad the impaler, Idi Amin, Stalin, Herod, The Turks in WW1, 20-30 Iraqis shote dead each day in Bhagdad alone, Tianamen Square, Rwanda...white westerners, huh? We're all as bad as one another. Just look at the arguments we're having here. Why not just think 'Ok, lets try and get on? Agree to disagree? Make sure this won't happen again?' What's up, too many 'great satans' to deal with, eh?
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Guest: Jim Bob, Wasilla (180 days ago)

Famous last sayings... Mayor of Hiroshima:- "What the fu*k was that"?
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Guest (157 days ago)

Well at least the Americans won the war for the rest of poor old Europe.....BO||OCKS. Our Dear Leader Kim I am a stunted self loveing retard will soon be dropping some more. Cant wait, start with texas.
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Guest: Ula (72 days ago)

Yeah , Americans won the war in Europe , the Russans had nothing to do with the war in Europe at all. And 80 % of the German army getting killed on the Eastern front in the 4 years previously was an accident . MORON
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Guest: David (180 days ago)

There were 75 million Japanese prepared to fight to the death to protect the homeland. The Allies estimated the invasion would cause 5 million Allied casualties and ten times as many Japanese dead and wounded. The civilian government of Japan was making peace overtures, but the military, the real power, wanted to fight on to the death. How many lives were saved by forcing Japan to capitulate? Far more than died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Guest (180 days ago)

Well said. Why do so many others go for the emotional view based on one clip like this without seeing the bigger picture as it was at the time, to die in war is not nice end of.
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Guest (157 days ago)

Well at least the Americans won the war for the rest of poor old Europe.....BO||OCKS. Our Dear Leader Kim I am a stunted self loveing retard will soon be dropping some more. Cant wait, start with texas.
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ajhawkinsjrajhawkinsjr (179 days ago)

Don't think we are special we just have better resources, and more modern equipment.
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Guest: Do your research! (168 days ago)

Japan "got the message" and it was prudent to drop two bombs so that the Japan didn't think that America only had one of these bombs (infact they only had two!) If America had simply wanted to cause the biggest loss of life possible then they would've dropped the bombs elsewhere, like Tokyo, Osaka or Yokohoma which would've cause about 3-4 times the loss of life.
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unclesamUncleSam (177 days ago)

Absolutely justified and necessary. By doing this, Truman saved hundreds of thousands of Allied (and Japanese) lives. You're welcome.
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Guest: Dave (170 days ago)

I agree.
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Guest: Zastrozzi (146 days ago)

Speaking as a Brit: Damn right. And the Allies never subjected their POWs to medical experiments, while we're on the subject.
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Guest (135 days ago)

you're a moron. Both of you are.
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glortmanglortman (62 days ago)

Actually, the US subjected its own citizens to medical experiments, and happily let them die. Consider the Tuskegee Syphillis Study where the US government allowed uneducated men to die from syphillis by telling them they were being treated for "bad blood" but watching them die so they could follow the progression of the disease and collecting the autopsy data. Or check out David/Brenda Reimer from Canada whose penis was burned off during a botched circumcision. The doctor convinced David's parents to give him a sex change while silently convinced that he would prove that nurture determines sexuality and not nurture. Very civilized indeed.
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glortmanglortman (62 days ago)

sorry, that should read "nurture determines sexuality and not nature"...
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Guest: The continental (100 days ago)

Japan surrendered because of the declaration of war by the USSR, not because of the Atomic bombs. 140.000 lives, people... Not jusitfyable in these days... neither in those. The balance of civilians killed in this war is in the blood stained hands of the allies. Yes, we had to win. But you can say also now, sorry and this should not happen any day again
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iid1e4IID1E4 (148 days ago)

i cannot accept it was justified to kill innocent people who were just going about their everyday lives. i've seem similar things present day where someone decides blowing up innocent people is ok....but these days it's called terrorism.
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Guest: Guestonaut (180 days ago)

To date, the only attack with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare (apart from the other one three days later).
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Guest: nunu (180 days ago)

yes glad someone else spotted that
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Guest: Raz (180 days ago)

I think the figures of the causalities indicate they are talking about both bombs
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