But are they better off now?
But are they better off now?
The pilot had no regrets because he was not a sissified, fem-boy.
2403 military and 68 civilians were killed in the unprovoked cowardly sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
They sowed the wind.
If it saves JUST ONE LIFE …..?
I thing it saved over a million lives.
In fact, it probably kept Japan from getting taken over by the Soviet Union.
Of course, back then the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) was evil. And the USA was better in moral terms.
Hiroshima vs Detroit. That is a powerful comparison.
Enola Gay
So the LGBTQRSTLMNOP+++ community is not entirely innocent.
I like that the church is still standing. Amazing
Why are dots there? It should clearly say DEMOCRATS: Worse than nukes! It’s the truth!
I met Paul Tibbetts at his book signing at the WWII Museum’s opening of the Pacific Wing. I told him how my mother survived the Hiroshima bombing, moved to America and raised a family. We had come full circle, me telling him this as U.S. Navy chief. He was truly speechless. He signed a copy of his book to my mother. It was a very emotional moment.
A few years back, it became very fashionable to suggest that atomic weapons were used against Japan rather than Germany in WWII due to racism. My review came to the conclusion that the decision was based on something more practical. It was easier to guarantee that an experimental bomb would reach its target if dropped over Japan than if used against Germany. The concern was that if the bomb never detonated, it could be recovered and reverse engineered, and the Germans were far more likely to do that than the Japanese. Since atomic weapons had never before been used in war, no one really knew how effective, or deadly, they would be.
After Saipan and Iwo Jima, he thought atomic bombs were a really cool idea!
It was devastating but both bombs were very small compared to what we have today. I think it was 200,000 people total died from both bombs. Compare than to the Nazis killing 6 million Jews or Communism killing 100 million or the coming deaths when the Biden occupation starts WW3 with Russia and China.
If it had even one more top secret in it the plane could not have taken off < /s>. Did the editor not notice the worx "pounds" was missing?
If the atomic bomb had not worked, Col. Tibbets would probably been a small part of thousand plane air raids firebombing cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the ability to use one bomb to destroy a city had profound geopolitical effects, it mattered very little to the residents whether they were killed by a burst of radiation and an overpressure wave or being doused in napalm and being burned alive or suffocating from lack of oxygen as your city burned around you.
Wow
That is shamefully stunning.
Great perspective
P4L
Interesting fact for all scared of radiation.
From official French Gov. web site:
The excess mortality from cancers is obtained by comparing survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a control population. There is a significant excess at all ages, on average 5%: 7578 cancer deaths compared to 7244 for the control population, i.e. an excess of 334. The observation period is from 1950 to 1986.
What it means, that practically all dead from atomic bombs died from the explosion and heat generated by the bombs.
Only about 334 (statistically) survivors died later on from radiation exposure!
My father was in the Philippines preparing for the invasion of Japan when the bombs were dropped. They probably saved his life and the lives of countless others.
It’s a powerful meme but, for the record, the US city pictured in 1945 is probably Pittsburgh. Detroit was similarly prosperous, but it doesn’t have two major rivers....
why would he feel bad?
would it have been somehow more humane to have dropped 1,000’s of fire bombs?
Paul Tibbetts was a true American hero.
A judge whom I once worked for was specially trained to be a leader in the first wave of the invasion of Japan. Like many others, he regarded the atom bombing of Japan as the only reason he was alive after the war.
Naval Office estimate was that an invasion of Japan would cost some 2,000,000+ lives.
Towards the end of his life, Col. Tibbets, though confined to a wheelchair, had the status of a rock star.
The “Sandia Atomic Museum” was originally sited in 1969 on the grounds of Kirtland Air Force Base and was staffed by United States Air Force (USAF) personnel with help from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). In 1973, the Museum name changed to “National Atomic Museum”, but it did not yet have a national charter.
Every now and then, Col. Tibbets would pay a visit, and soon crowds would flood in for a meet and greet. The crowds quickly exceeded the area of the facility, which was aircraft hangar sized.
Because of 9-11, they had to move the museum off base, due to of the limitations on public access.