Having visited Peace Park in Hiroshima and seen the museum there, this photo crystalizes the very reasons the Bush Administration should be exercising more control over the US borders.
It's a matter of time before the heart of one of our cities looks like the aftermath of Nagasaki. I pray that it will never happen, but the hate that has been sewn among the jihadists assures us that the past is prologue.
It's easy to sit in the comfort of our homes and recklessly talk about nuking various places, but try visiting one of those places and see if you still agree. It's not as exciting as it may seem when you understand the suffering and misery of the victims. We can discuss the pros and cons forever and I see both sides of the argument.
In the long run, atomic/nuclear weapons are not and cannot be the playthings of mad, immature minds. I don't doubt that Truman wrestled with the question of dropping the bombs on Japan, and I doubt that he took much pleasure in their result. And, yet, reluctantly, the use of those weapons in that circumstance was the right call in the final analysis.
God willing, we will never see a repetition of those bombings.
Also looks like Mecca and Medina need to look soon...
black and white says it all....Just a two picture lesson in how thousands of American troops lives were saved...
I'd really like to see the high res images if they are made available on the net. Those above photos look like about 12x20 city blocks, and the destruction is total all the way out to the edge of the second photo... So how far does the "nothing but dust and splinters" area go? And you know that for at least a mile after the buildings remained intact, that everyone died soon afterward.
Scary stuff.
Did anyone see the videos posted a while back of the cameras on board the old WW2 ships during a nuclear test? It's creepy watching a warship hull melt and disintegrate in just a couple of seconds.
Thank you President Truman!! (The last democrat with the balls to protect American lives). To the Japanese - Paybacks are hell!! You got what you so richly deserved.
My son has a degree in Japanese Studies and spent his last college year at a University in that country. He being quite the lib all I ever had to do to get him on an entertaining rant is to say the little B******S deserved it. Funny though, he has now spent a year in S. Korea (AF)and is actually getting a more realistic view of Japan from them.
If anyone finds a link to high resolution versions of these images, before I do, I would be grateful.
Historical BUMP!