With tomorrow being the 65th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, I came across a few articles of interest. They concern the attendance of representatives of the US and other nuclear powers for the first time. **This is not meant to open debate on the "right" or "wrong" of the decision to drop the bomb. It is merely a recognition of 2 things; the anniversary and the first attendance by current nuclear powers. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_HIROSHIMA?SITE=RIPRJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...HIMA?SITE=RIPRJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
It's great we are finally going to attend. My apology would be "I'm truly sorry we were ever enemies". I'd leave it at that.
Found a link to some rare photos of the atomic bomb damages in both cities. Goto: Never-Seen: Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Thanks Jeff, I didn't see the other post until mine was up and before I could merge them you did the deed. I see both myself and "icysdad" posted at the same exact moment! I had just found those photos from the Life collection and found them quite interesting.
sometimes i wonder, why we dropped a lethal bomb on 2 innocent cities. if there were people from Nagasaki and Hiroshima who didnt die that day, they still are now...
I think you are seriously mis-informed about the "innocent" cities part. Use the search funcion here for those two cities and you will find that neither of them were full of "innocent farmers and fishermen with their wives and kids." They were both legitimate military targets, and war production centers. I agree it was a "nasty" bomb to use, but it wasn't used with malice and disregard for the after effects. Nobody KNEW of them until after their dropping.
I have only seen the life size models of nuclear weapons at the Atomic Museum here. I tell you, it is a very haunting and uneasy feeling to stand by the models of the Little Boy and Fat Man bombs and try to comprehend the destruction and death caused by these single objects. With all the people that are or have been in the military here, I bet some people here have worked around with the real weapons. If you are out there, (and you can talk about it), did you have any same feelings like I had in the back of your head?
Here's one man's opinion piece from today's newspaper. Please don't shoot the messenger. Still thankful for the bomb Some years ago, Paul Fussell wrote a controversial essay titled "Thank God for the Atom Bomb." In it, he argued that dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan was necessary to end the war in the Pacific. With today's 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima - followed three days later by Nagasaki - memories of the awesome event in world history are sure to appear. One question in particular will be raised again: Was it right for President Harry S. Truman to order the use of atomic weapons? Read more: Still thankful for the bomb | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/06/2010
