Facts and figures of the death toll and destruction caused by another tragic decision.
Aerial photo of Nagasaki. Before and after.
Click and view the enlarged photo to see how much destruction it caused, with a bomb that is thousands of times less powerful than what is avail today.
Memorials
1st row From left: 1. 11:02am, the moment 1/3 of the population was wiped out instantly. Many clocks stopped from the blast shockwaves. 2. Twisted steel frames from a fireman post. 3. Melted rosary retrieved from a church. The donor's mother's body could not be found, so she kept it for remembrance.
2nd row from left: 1. Fat Boy, only 4m x 1.5m. Only around the size of a Honda Jazz. Think about how many lives were taken by 1 Honda Jazz sized car. 2. Coins that melted and fused together. 3. Ceramic plates fused together.
3rd row from left: 1. Glass that's melted and fused together with the bones of a human hand. 2. Money in the safe, surrounded by thick lead walls, burnt by the thermal rays. 3. A helmet with fragments from a skull fused to it.
The burnt, charred bodies and injuries are self-explanatory.
Of interest is a portion of a tree trunk, which decades after the bomb, was chopped off. Fragments forming a base of a vase were found deeply entrenched in the tree trunk. Look closely and you'll see some spaces within the trunk. Those were where glass fragments shot through and the trunk gradually grew and covered them.
Read these words from survivors if you have the time. They give insight into their thoughts.
i was extremely saddened and angry after reading this. I strongly do not think that, the war administration then did not have enough evidence to believe Japan would be surrendering soon. The 1st usage of the bomb to justify to the public on expenditure and incapacitate their opponents would have been more than enough. Why the need for the 2nd?
Stuart - Egos of leaders, if unchecked, can reap untold disasters.
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