Eye witness accounts from the Hiroshima bombing
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http://gizmodo.com/5606053/this-it-how-it-feels-to...
Don't think that really needs an accompanying comment.
Don't think that really needs an accompanying comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
Survived Hiroshima then the next day went back to his home...Nagasaki and survived that too!
Survived Hiroshima then the next day went back to his home...Nagasaki and survived that too!
It was such a dick move on the Americans part..
No regard for civilian life.
I don't think the "Many more would have died had they not dropped the bomb" argument is valid at all. The people that would have died were soldier on both sides.
Not innocent civilians going about their every day lives.
Yes I am aware of the atrocities committed by japan against the chinese.
I still don't believe it was right.
No regard for civilian life.
I don't think the "Many more would have died had they not dropped the bomb" argument is valid at all. The people that would have died were soldier on both sides.
Not innocent civilians going about their every day lives.
Yes I am aware of the atrocities committed by japan against the chinese.
I still don't believe it was right.
Frankeh said:
It was such a dick move on the Americans part..
No regard for civilian life.
I don't think the "Many more would have died had they not dropped the bomb" argument is valid at all. The people that would have died were soldier on both sides.
Not innocent civilians going about their every day lives.
Yes I am aware of the atrocities committed by japan against the chinese.
I still don't believe it was right.
I understand that more people died from the fire bombings than from the nukes. Continuing the fire bombing could have been worse. It wasn't a good move in my mind either but they weren't responding to the incendiary attacks.No regard for civilian life.
I don't think the "Many more would have died had they not dropped the bomb" argument is valid at all. The people that would have died were soldier on both sides.
Not innocent civilians going about their every day lives.
Yes I am aware of the atrocities committed by japan against the chinese.
I still don't believe it was right.
I shall read the op link now but can imagine it is hugely sobering.
I've seen films/documentaries before where victims are interviewed, it makes terrible reading but it makes you want to cry when you see the person talking there as well.
It's a bit like when you see interviews of holocaust survivors who just say "yes, my father and brother were taken away and I never saw them again"....
Sobering stuff.
It's a bit like when you see interviews of holocaust survivors who just say "yes, my father and brother were taken away and I never saw them again"....
Sobering stuff.
Symbolica said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
Survived Hiroshima then the next day went back to his home...Nagasaki and survived that too!
He must of been really unlucky that week!Survived Hiroshima then the next day went back to his home...Nagasaki and survived that too!
Emsman said:
Frankeh,
Did hitler show much regard for civilian life when he ordered the bombing of Coventry or London?
The dropping of the atomic weapons effectively ended the War against Japan.
Not really comparable. About 70,000 people were killed instantly from that one bomb, that's more than the entire civilian casualties the UK suffered during the whole of WWII. That doesn't include those dead from fallout either.Did hitler show much regard for civilian life when he ordered the bombing of Coventry or London?
The dropping of the atomic weapons effectively ended the War against Japan.
Frankeh said:
It was such a dick move on the Americans part..
No regard for civilian life.
I don't think the "Many more would have died had they not dropped the bomb" argument is valid at all. The people that would have died were soldier on both sides.
Not innocent civilians going about their every day lives.
Yes I am aware of the atrocities committed by japan against the chinese.
I still don't believe it was right.
Two options faced them both with huge loss of life. Invade or blockade. Either way more would have died. Japan had already shown what it was capable of.No regard for civilian life.
I don't think the "Many more would have died had they not dropped the bomb" argument is valid at all. The people that would have died were soldier on both sides.
Not innocent civilians going about their every day lives.
Yes I am aware of the atrocities committed by japan against the chinese.
I still don't believe it was right.
Not saying bombing anyone is nice but the tone was set once the tanks set off in the beginning.
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