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Posted on 04/09/2026 5:31:06 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
On a bright but cloudy morning on 9 August 1945, a B-29 bomber, named “Bocks Car”, of the US Army Air Force, flew over the Japanese port city of Nagasaki and dropped a highly radioactive Plutonium implosion bomb onto the city, 300 yards from the second largest Roman Catholic cathedral in the Far East, Urakami Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
This was the nuclear bomb that went on giving for years after it was dropped – giving to the people of Nagasaki the horrible after-effects of nuclear radiation that slowly kill victims for years... Children were blasted to tiny pieces of mangled flesh and fractured bone by a huge bomb dropped right on top of them...
Very little research was needed to discover that the city of Nagasaki was the one city of Japan that was most likely to be friendly to the Western Allies, not only because it was a port city where, even when Japan was closed and isolated, foreigners would still enter and visit, but also because of a vitally important cultural reason.
That vital reason was that the city of Nagasaki was the very epicentre of Japanese Catholicism.
Construction of Urakami Cathedral began in 1895, after the long-standing ban on Christianity was lifted.
It became the Co-Cathedral of Nagasaki together with Oura Cathedral.
Both cathedrals were blown to bits when Bocks Car dropped its deadly pay-load on the unsuspecting capital of Japanese Christianity, the one part of Japan that could reasonably be expected to be most favourable to the Western Allies. Nolan notes these numbers:
Of the approximately 12,000 Christians living in Urakami at the time, 8,500 were killed, including several dozen parishioners and two Catholic priests, who were hearing confessions in the cathedral that morning.
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the date of the article is: March 26, 2024
Just a marker for the navigator and missed by 1200 yards.
Thos guys were pretty high up and didn’t really have GPS or needed one for an atom bomb?
My buddy grok will validate?
I think you would really like the book “Bells of Nagasaki” by
Takashi Nagai.
Too much information. There was a time where they slaughtered 37k christians in a castle. Don’t know when.
IIRC, Nagasaki was not the original target - there was a very late switch in plans that doomed the city.
Agreed. And Nagasaki was military production, including shipyards.
Nagasaki drew the short straw because the original target Kyoto was completely overcast. Nagasaki was almost completely overcast but then their was a break in the clouds. The B-29 landed with dry gas tanks in Okinawa.
What are you on about?
Thank you! The title alone evokes such an image.
“Nagasaki drew the short straw because the original target Kyoto was completely overcast. “
It wasn’t KYOTO , it was KOKURA in Kita-Kyushu . I live in Kumamoto , in Kyushu . Kumamoto was also on the list .
What an absolute steaming pantload. We were not the bad guys, and Nagasaki was not an attack on Catholicism or Christians. That mission was an absolute masterclass of airmanship by the brave and honorable crew of B-29 BocksCar.
Eff this damned Australian revisionist.
Does he have any idea of the suffering of our men? Of how many millions of them and of Japanese were doomed in the upcoming invasion?
Utterly sick. And also the bombing of Germany was a war crime and ineffective? Another of that camp that we should have bypassed all the islands, sailed into Tokyo Bay and demanded surrender.
Damned fool...and guaranteed he has never spent a day in the bad places.
And no... the Nagasaki bomb was not what is now called a “dirty bomb”.
Unreal revisionist crap.
As for whether or not the bombing was warranted, many opinions here, one of the best short ones is this.
The city contained the Mitsubishi-Urakami Torpedo Works, the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works, and the Mitsubishi-Akunoura Shipyard, which were crucial for producing military equipment. It was also the largest seaport in southern Japan.
The damned fool.... there was nothing special about Nagasaki that it should have been spared.
There is nothing interesting about historical revisionism.
And the C.P. Snow he references is a labor government Brit who is one of the ones who slandered Bomber Command and Arthur Harris.
Lowlife writer using lowlife references...
Amazing simping, that the targeting committee should have done a study on the sympathies and demographics of each Jap city? It was 1945.... you didn’t just pick up an IPhone and tap in. At that time we would still be surprised by a carrier, a new fighter plane, or giant battleship we didn’t know existed.
By the way, those Japanese Catholics? Were they refusing to report to work at the factories? Were they getting info out to the Allies somehow?
Lame...
Sometimes judgement comes a long time after the crime in God’s economy. Nagasaki is the site of crucifying 17 Christians, brutal persecution of Christians all over Japan, especially around Nagasaki, also threw Christians in Mt Unzen hell lake to boil to death.
That could be a way to look at it...it’s horrible either way...And don’t get me wrong, General MacArthur did God’s work as far as I’m concerned in the aftermath...
But still horrible...War just is. Americans aplenty died too.
I just posted prior that General MacArthur did God’s work in the aftermath.
But war is still horrible. And nuclear war is on a whole other level.
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