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Remembering the Innocence lost 63 years later, Nagasaki Japan.
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by everchanging | August 9, 2008 at 02:32 pm
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While the total lose of lives to this remains unknown the estimates are about 27,000 of the southwestern city's estimated 200,000 population died instantly from the bomb, and about 70,000 had died by the end of 1945.
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At 11:02 a.m., the time the atomic bomb struck, ceremony participants offered a silent prayer. At the same time, local high school students rang the Bells of Nagasaki.
A total of 5,650 A-bomb survivors, representatives of victims' families from around the nation and Nagasaki citizens participated in the ceremony. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda also attended the ceremony, which was held in Nagasaki Peace Park near ground zero.
"Human beings have no future unless nuclear weapons are eliminated. We shall clearly say no to nuclear weapons," Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue said when reading out the Nagasaki Peace Declaration, which urges the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons.
The mayor referenced one of the doctor's remarks, saying: "There are no winners or losers in a war. There is only destruction."
via: www.yamiuri.co.jp
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The Manhattan Project - The name for the design and creation of Nuclear weapons during World War II in the U.S.
One the scientist who created these weapons stated:
“In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no
overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin;
and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose” - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Near the end of his life, Oppenheimer expressed mixed feelings about the atomic bombings:
- "I have no remorse about the making of the bomb and Trinity [the first test of an a-bomb]. That was done right. As for how we used it, I understand why it happened and appreciate with what nobility those men with whom I'd worked made their decision. But I do not have the feeling that it was done right. The ultimatum to Japan [the Potsdam Proclamation demanding Japan's surrender] was full of pious platitudes. ...our government should have acted with more foresight and clarity in telling the world and Japan what the bomb meant." (Lansing Lamont,Day of Trinity, pg. 332-333).
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at 15:00 on August 9th, 2008
What a great post. Are you having trouble with the highlight tool however?
at 15:18 on August 9th, 2008
Thanks Amy, yes the highlighter tool did not take, that is why I used ~ ~ to specify the story source. I may need to update tools again.
at 15:48 on August 9th, 2008
Ok great - thanks.
at 15:28 on August 9th, 2008
I remember the event well. It was quite a relief that there would not have to be an invasion that would take so many young US soldiers lifes.
I remember Pearl Harbor. It was a Sunday afternoon and my family was churning ice cream in the back yard.
I remember when my favorite uncle was shot in the islands after having liberated the prisoners held by Japan in the University of Manila.
I remember. I remember well.
at 15:47 on August 9th, 2008
BAH, Thank you for your comments.
Those times most have been hard in all the ways that lives where lost and saved at the same time from the events of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I did not live in those times and I am thankful that you remember them to remind those of today that war has no true winners - only lose for all those that are involved, as I am sure you have felt those sorrows many days.
at 18:28 on August 9th, 2008
everchanging, I like this story. It's good stuff.
There's just no way to rationalize this ... the people who let this genie out of the bottle, the ones we know about anyway, are all long gone.
What remains is their contribution to our cultural heritage!
What great men indeed, to have changed the world so much for the better ...
at 23:13 on August 9th, 2008
Thank you Emilio for the GS. While the Genie is out of the bottle and will remain out, it still remains that "most things" have a benefit of good and bad depending on how it is used. Atomic energy still remains to have a benefit, but the waste from its use is still a real problem that has not changed and will be a major problem for many generations of all life forms to be born on this planet in the future - nuclear power is a dead end because of this (in my eyes) and is only a quick fix for a energy source...
Medical science has benefits because its technological aspects as do some other scientific developments which is progress to humanity. In time and even now there maybe great leaps in science & technology, but as a weapon it has not and never will be a benefit to humanity in the primitive sense, we as a species have chosen to use it against one another.
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Nikola Tesla (here also) where both genius in mind and where both wise for one common reason - being not to release the true depth of knowledge they had in their possession to others and for one main reason, they both know the danger of what they knew and that not everyone would use the knowledge to the the greater good to the benefit all and would be used to control, damage or destroy others instead. To the deferment of Humanity we all lost because of these few people or those governing in their times and saw the bigger picture. These two men did change the world, but they could have done so much more had it not been for the ill minded among the human species.
at 21:56 on August 9th, 2008
everchanging, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 23:14 on August 9th, 2008
Thank you very much Paschen, for the GS.
at 21:56 on August 9th, 2008
everchanging, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 23:15 on August 9th, 2008
Thank you Heritage for GS.
at 03:21 on August 10th, 2008
Much of what is here is hogwash by people who write fiction. A Sunday morning sneak attack speaks of the character of the nation of Japan! Death marches where those too weak to walk are shot speak of the character of the country. Pilots put in planes willing to crash into ships tells of brainwashing. One of my uncles was on the Battan death march. What a stupid thing it would be to have another invasion like Normandy.
The statement that all the US had to do was to wait a while is a stinkin lie! PERIOD! The fanatic government of Japan was prepared to have every citizen die fighting for a lost cause, whatever that was! It would have been a terrrible thing for Truman to with hold the bomb for a landing of troops. The bomb may have caused a net saving of lifes. That is unknown except by those who wish to bash the US.
It would be nice if there was no bomb. Germany almost made one. When , not if, radical ignorant religious idiots who think they will go to heaven for killing get the A bomb you will see the results. That may not be too far in the future.
Whatever country you live in you will notice that the US has never enslaved your people or taken your land.
at 05:23 on August 10th, 2008
Righteous indignation or infantile rage here ?
The ascendancy of Japanese automotive brands over all others in the world also speaks to the character of that nation.
A dispassionate review of historical facts will definately back up the arguments of one who may go so far as to claim the Japanese were strongly provoked into attacking Pearl Harbor, much in the same way one provokes a dog by poking at it with a stick ...
All in the name of providing an expedient means for America to get into the action of WWII, thereby unifying a demoralized nation behind the banner of war and opening the door to vast potential of profits of post-war reconstruction. A tried and true business plan if ever there was one. If BAH does not admit governments are capable of such subterfuges as this then I suggest he may have only recently arrived here on this planet ...
Hanging onto old resentments is not going to help anybody deal with the dire situation we all face today. The only realistic choice, in my view is to face the cold hard facts as bravely as one is able ... they ain't pretty, and you might have to throw up a few times, but I can almost guarantee it - you'll be better off if you do ...
at 06:00 on August 10th, 2008
A dispassionate review of historical facts? Dribble! One who reads the historical facts assures that he will never find the truth! A great man made that up! Guess who? Demoralized nation? Churning ice cream in the back yard of a little pink stucco house on a Sunday afternoon, I was not aware that I was living in a demoralized country. Thanks for checking the history and letting me know. Strongly provoked? Hanging onto old resentments? Horse manure! Few Americans resent the Japanese! They were lead by nuts like many countries today. Face the facts? I don't think facts will enter into the picture for the ignorant. I think I will be satisfied to be only as well off as I am now!
at 06:11 on August 10th, 2008
You were not aware the great depression had been going on for 10 years, since the great crash of 1929?
You were not aware that many people were living lives described by Stienbeck in, 'The Grapes of Wrath?'
Maybe you have only recently arrived here on Earth.
My apologies for having been the one to have informed you.
at 06:48 on August 10th, 2008
at 08:04 on August 10th, 2008
I am aware of all that! I know about lots of fiction by the socialist writers. The Jungle is one great example. I remember the depression first hand and not from fiction writers. In the worst days things were better than in many Marxist countries at best even today! My grandfather lost his bank account and building business in the crash of 29. My father walked quite a ways to work at one time. He had a job. He gardened to help with food. Many of those I knew never recovered completely. I don't remember them being "demoralized". I caddied for a man who lost his auto dealership. He was a damn good golfer and seemed quite happy. I don't pay too much attention to fiction or movies. The movie was not photographed as it actually happened. I am sure the people in places like NY were demoralized because the government was not providing for them. Then not much difference now huh?
Now, that is all! I am packing to go deer hunting in South Carolina as I have for many years. The worst times in the USA is better than the best days in any Marxist or Socialist country! Period! Now in my Tocoma pickup and off to the treestand on the edge of the Four Holes Swamp.
at 08:18 on August 10th, 2008
The Grapes of Wrath? Come on!