Hiroshima mayor lashes out at U.S. on 59th anniversary of atomic bombing

Japan Today ^ | 06 Aug 04 | Shinya Ajima

[King Prout]

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that's the first I have heard of THAT!

[Petronski]

Found it.

The 'kill' is at 122.

[null and void]

I doubt that most college students could tell you who Harry Truman WAS.

Dude! He's like that guy, like you know who wouldn't like leave, and like Mt St. Helens, like got him, you know?

[Petronski]

Whoops, the 'kill' is at 135.

[King Prout]

thanks! you Da Man!

[null and void]

The Japs exploded an atomic bomb shortly after the Nagasaki attack. The device was in a barge tied up to some little islet in the Sea of Japan safely out ot range of US recon aircraft. If we had continued with the invasion plans they may have gotten one or two more ready in time to hit the invasion fleet.

Source please?

[Diddley]

I was a child when the bomb was dropped. We were all worried about the Japanese.
Thanks for your sentiments.

The Japanese of today are not the Jpanese of 1945, so I wouldn't worry.

I know that. I was just raggin' on the mayor.

[COEXERJ145]

A nice story but one that lacks any real evidence. It comes from a single source, a Japanese army officer who claims to have witnessed the "test".

We know that the Japanese were working on an atomic bomb but their programs were far behind the United States. The documents we found after the war showed that they were probably at the same stage the Manhattan Project was in 1942. Much of their equipment and materials were destroyed by B-29 firebomb raids in 1945.

[COEXERJ145]

A nice story but one that lacks any real evidence. It comes from a single source, a Japanese army officer who claims to have witnessed the "test".

We know that the Japanese were working on an atomic bomb but their programs were far behind the United States. The documents we found after the war showed that they were probably at the same stage the Manhattan Project was in 1942. Much of their equipment and materials were destroyed by B-29 firebomb raids in 1945.

[COEXERJ145]

Ack, dang double post.

[null and void]

Oh my!

[Diddley]

And thank you (and your dad) for your service to our country. You have an impressive bio, Colonel. I'm glad you're on our side (Republican).

[GATOR NAVY]

Holy crap, that was like watching a slow motion train wreck! Thanks for the entertainment.

[The Grammarian]

If you don't like the heat, stay out of the kitchen. THEY are the ones who attacked Pearl Harbor. THEY are the ones who destroyed American lives all across the Pacific. Who knows how many lives were saved by those bombs? As an American I am outraged that they even have the chutzpah to be "outraged." They brought it on themselves.

"They" are a minority in this case. The Social Democratic Party as a whole is 1) an opposition party to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, 2) opposed to the revision of their constitution's Article 9, and 3) opposed to the commitment of the JSDF overseas in Iraq (or anywhere outside of Japan).

In other words, like the Japan Communist Party and Japan Socialist Party before them, the SDP is a leftist organization that lives in the ideal world of "unarmed neutrality" (as the JSP once advocated). Pay these twits no more mind than you do the Green Party of the US.

[Petronski]

Kinda like a psychological case study.


I especially loved being accused of being a 'dual citizen' who smoked poppy. And no, I have no idea what either reference meant. LOL

[GATOR NAVY]

Much of their equipment and materials were destroyed by B-29 firebomb raids in 1945.

Bombardment of Tokyo's Nuclear Labs

[sushiman]

" THEY are the ones who attacked Pearl Harbor. THEY are the ones who destroyed American lives all across the Pacific. "

Problem is , most Japanese folks are happily unaware of what really went on in WW2 because they get a thorough brainwashing in school . They learn more about what the Nazis did . I've read my daughter's school textbook . A total whitewashing of everything evil Tojo and his loyal robots did . Really pisses me off - but what are you gonna do ?

[The Grammarian]

Would the Japanese care to explain why their emporer did NOT surrender after the first bomb fell. Why they allowed the second city to be bombed.

If I remember right, it was politics. Note that there was a palace coup attempt by elements in the Japanese military after the second bomb dropped that, if it had been successful, would have prevented the Japanese from surrendering even after the second bomb.

[Billthedrill]

Hooboy - I missed that one. Bones loses the guidance module and goes ballistic. Tip to newbies: if you find yourself about to post "Sieg Heil," it's time to take a break...

[todd1]

you got to do what you have to do somtimes.....

This is important that we don't let the children forget... that it would have been devestating on our troups to invade the island.