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10 Newly Released Photos of Hiroshima [Very Graphic]
mixx.com — The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains 10 never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Taken by unknown Japanese photographer, they were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Warning, very graphic.
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- chipsngravy, on 05/03/2008, -2/+12One of the great atrocities of the 20th century.
- caferrell, on 05/03/2008, -2/+10How about the fire bombing of Dresden that had absolutely zero military significance. It was bombed so that the fly boys could "show what they could do"
Now we are going to bomb Iran, in part for the same reason.
- caferrell, on 05/03/2008, -2/+10How about the fire bombing of Dresden that had absolutely zero military significance. It was bombed so that the fly boys could "show what they could do"
- AnokK, on 05/03/2008, -2/+10What disturbs me most is the continued xenophobia and hatred, combined with acute blindness that creates the very world we live in, right now. The comments for those photos are...more disturbing than the photos themselves. With very little rational discussion coming from one side (yeah! They got what they deserved!) I worry about what the future will bring.
More of the same?- caferrell, on 05/04/2008, -2/+5You're right AnokK, the comments were worse than the photos and show that Americans still believe the wartime propaganda.
- chipsngravy, on 05/04/2008, -2/+6Typical of the irrational moral blindness many people have to crimes committed by "their side". Most probably these same people believe the "towelheads" in Iraq also "had it coming".
- AnokK, on 05/04/2008, -1/+5Not just that they had it coming, but that somehow, amazingly, their property belongs to us. Sometimes I just sit and stare at the screen, wondering, what on Earth...?
Caferrell, the wartime propaganda machine is working overtime right now. The same mentality is surfacing (or has been for some time) about our current foreign policy. Unbelievable!
- AnokK, on 05/04/2008, -1/+5Not just that they had it coming, but that somehow, amazingly, their property belongs to us. Sometimes I just sit and stare at the screen, wondering, what on Earth...?
- caferrell, on 05/04/2008, -2/+5You're right AnokK, the comments were worse than the photos and show that Americans still believe the wartime propaganda.
- sherrife, on 05/04/2008, -3/+10The main myth that I come across is that the Japanese were unwilling to surrender.
In fact, they had repeatedly tried to surrender, but the only condition they clung to was to allow the emperor to stay in his role as the ruler of Japan. The corrupt US leaders refused this simple condition for purely political reasons (wanted control over Japan and to show the rest of the world their new weapon), and so hundreds of thousands of people died.
RIP to yet another massive group of workers and innocents who died as a result of unnecessary international competition and conflict.- chipsngravy, on 05/04/2008, -2/+7Even admirals Nimitz and Leahy thought the bomb was totally unnecessary from a military point of view. The Japanese were being routed across Asia by the Soviets and the evidence is strong that they were close to capitulation.
Totally agree that the real reason for Hiroshima was most likely to show the rest of the world who would be calling the shots in the post-war environment.- caferrell, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2I read that Nimitz wanted to demonstrate a nuclear explosion to Japanse officials on some coral atoll in the Pacific, but political forces in Washington convinced Truman to order the murder of thousands of civilians.
- sherrife, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2They weren't just close to capitulation, they were actively trying to surrender. All they wanted was their symbolic figurehead, the emperor, to remain in his throne.
Was that really worth killing hundreds of thousands of innocents for? For capitalist generals, yes.
- chipsngravy, on 05/04/2008, -2/+7Even admirals Nimitz and Leahy thought the bomb was totally unnecessary from a military point of view. The Japanese were being routed across Asia by the Soviets and the evidence is strong that they were close to capitulation.
- str3ama, on 05/04/2008, -4/+1dugg for the fact that this links to a mixx (the so-called digg killer) page which then links to the article..
http://yawoot.com/post/415
I've never seen that many dead bodies before, and they're all just piled up on top of each other. Eerie consequences of a single bomb. - GrandmaSheila, on 05/04/2008, -2/+5Some knowledge is unbearable, and for that reason the most necessary. Look upon the future face of the middleEast, and perhaps us too.
- Feralvision, on 05/06/2008, -0/+1One of the greatest crimes against humanity.
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