To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
As most Japanese buildings were wood and paper at that time, I wonder how modern stone buildings would hold up in comparison? Hope I do not find out...
11 posted on
07/26/2005 1:35:45 AM PDT by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: American in Israel
As most Japanese buildings were wood and paper at that time, I wonder how modern stone buildings would hold up in comparison? Hope I do not find out... The buildings themselves will probably stand up quite well. The church at ground zero in Nagasaki was one of the few stone buildings in the city. After the bombing, its walls were still standing. IIRC, a large part of the damage from the two blasts over Japan were from fire afterwards, not from the actual explosions.
14 posted on
07/26/2005 1:46:28 AM PDT by
killjoy
(Real Men Love Bush)
To: American in Israel
As most Japanese buildings were wood and paper at that time,
Good mythology, but not true. At the Peace Park Museum, there are literally dozens of fragments of concrete that have images of people burned onto them.
16 posted on
07/26/2005 1:47:55 AM PDT by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: American in Israel
I would imagine it would just turn a stone building into a burnt out shell, if left standing at all.
24 posted on
07/26/2005 4:24:27 AM PDT by
Husker24
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