visual thread of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after August 6

[roguejuror]

The American occupation forces imposed strict censorship on Japan, prohibiting anything "that might, directly or by inference, disturb public tranquility" and used it to prohibit all pictures of the bombed cities. The pictures remained classified 'top secret' for many years.

All the watches found in the ground zero were stopped at 8:15 am, the time of the explosion

Within a certain distance from the site of explosion, the heat was so intense that practically everything was vaporised. The shadows of the parapets were imprinted on the road surface of the Yorozuyo Bridge, 1/2 of a mile south-southwest of the hypocenter

Shadows of humans after vaporization.

On August 6, 1945, 8.15 am, the uranium atom bomb exploded 580 metres above the city of Hiroshima with a blinding flash, creating a giant fireball and sending surface temperatures to 4,000C

Humans were incinerated instantly, their internal organs boiled and their bones charred into brittle charcoal.

Concrete and steel melted. Within seconds, 75,000 people had been killed.

The following days their health began to fail. They lost appetite. Their hair fell out. Bluish spots appeared on their bodies. And then bleeding began from the ears, nose and mouth.

Doctors gave their patients Vitamin A injections. The flesh started rotting from the hole caused by the injection of the needle. And in every case the victim died.

This photograph shows an eyeball of an A-bomb victim who got an atomic bomb cataract. There is opacity near the center of the eyeball.

 

[roguejuror]

Nagasaki

On Agust 10, 1945, the day after the bombing of Nagasaki Yosuke Yamahata, began to photograh the devastation. The city was dead. He walked through the darkened ruins and the dead corpses for hours. By late afternoon, he had taken his final photographs near a first aid station north of the city. In a single day, he had completed the only extensive photographic record of the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Hibakusha was a derogatory term given to survivors, who suffered from discrimination throughout their life.

 

[Cami]

Oh my lord. More then anything this makes me want to cry. It's just so sad.

 

[Mudcat]

I wish that was the only 2 examples of twisted shit that humans do to each other but not even close.

 

[Matty]

That's rough man.

 

[Mudcat]

Thing is, you can make a pretty strong case that Hiroshima put an abrupt end to the war and saved many lives in the big picture. There is debate of course - there is always going to be debate - but the case is not far-fetched by any stretch.

Now was the second bomb necessary? There's a question.

 

[Saulty]

The firebombing of Tokyo on 9-10 March 1945 had actually more casualties than the atomic bombs. It was the most devastating air raid in human history.

 

[Cami]

I just don't understand. We all feel pain, love, sadness, happiness, the very basics of both mental and physical emotions.
I understand the need to protect yourself, like if I have to kill them before they kill me, to survive, but to place this on a person, on persons? I just don't understand. Why create such a thing to begin with? Humans are all fucked up.

 

[reno cool]

wow! pure evil.

 

[Cami]

wow! pure evil.

Ditto.

 

[Badnina]

there were atrocities committed during WWII. The Japanese were not going to stop before the US bombed Hiroshima. That one act is credited for ending the war. The bombing of Pearl Harbor wasn't a random act of kindness. The death rate for POW's held by the Japanese during this war was nearly 30%. After 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all prisoners that were taken at sea. There were massacres of Chinese by the Japanese. Millions of innocent people. POW's and civilians were used for human experiments and to test biological warfare. In places they occupied, women were forced into prostitution for the armed forces. Mr. Nina was born in Japan. His mother was Japanese. And even he will tell you that from what he learned at his mother's knee was that the US put a stop to practices that would not have stopped otherwise.

 

[roguejuror]

In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city. The six weeks of carnage would become known as the Rape of Nanking and represented the single worst atrocity during the World War II era in either the European or Pacific theaters of war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Alls_Policy

 

[reno cool]

I wonder what their rationale was? I'm sure they were stopping some greater atrocity too. Let that be a lesson to everyone. Never join the imperial army.

 

[FreeFall]

Thanks RJ keep these up! It never amazes me to see the other side of the story being taught history from a western perspective. I'm still in awe that this happened and almost don't really believe it.

 

[reno cool]

I'm a little amazed at how people are able to not hold a grudge.
I still kind of despise Germans.
My uncle on the other hand, who was born right before the war, lost his father in it, moved to Germany 20 years ago.
By all accounts a very bright fellow appears to have no ill feelings and talks about his new home country fondly(?)

 

[kato]

war is hell

pearl harbor, never forget

 

[Blitty]

nf

 

[Boner_18]

United States tried to stay out of that war. It came to them.