Posted on 05/03/2008 10:58:43 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces.
Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb.
Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below.
(Excerpt) Read more at yawoot.com ...
We were well justified in doing what was needed to stop the Japanese.
However, I will not be bringing an children into this horrible world. No-one should. They’ll just all end up being fodder some day or another. I’m 100% certain that massacres just like these will one day happen again in America and Europe. Just look at the growing population of spoiled, amoral hippies. Will we need to count on them? We can fight evil until our deaths (and I sure will) but there is no escaping our dark fate and all our attempts at defending our children are doomed to fail.
Damn, now I need a drink.
The West needs to view these pictures and determine if they want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
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ATOMIC POWER
(Fred Kirby)
Oh this world is at a tremble with its strength and mighty power
There sending up to heaven to get the brimstone fire
Take warning my dear brother, be careful how you plan
You’re working with the power of God’s own holy hand
Refrain:
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God
You remember two great cities in a distant foreign land
When scorched from the face of earth the power of Japan
Be careful my dear brother, don’t take away the joy
But use it for the good of man and never to destroy
Refrain
Hiroshima, Nagasaki paid a big price for their sins
When scorched from the face of earth their battles could not win
But on that day of judgment when comes a greater power
We will not know the minute and we’ll not know the hour
Refrain
Recorded by Fred Kirby, Rex Allen, the Buchanan Brothers, and others, 1946
"Some" doesn't really mean anything. As a whole the Japanese nation is non-aggressive. Their military philosophy now mirrors ours as one of force for defense and stability not expansion or intimidation. I don't know what "collective misery" the Japanese have to complain about. Japan is a relatively wealthy nation now.
As part of civil defense training in the UK we were shown film of the bombs exploding.
Flesh as well as clothing was ripped from bodies. These corpses looked very "fleshy"
ATOMIC COCKTAIL
(Slim Gaillard)
It’s the drink that you don’t pour
Now when you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.
Splashes ice all around the place
When you see it coming, grab your suitcase
It’ll send you through the sky like airmail-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.
You push a button, turn a dial
Your work is done for miles and miles
When it hits-it’s bound to shake ‘cause it feels just like an earthquake.
That’s the drink that you don’t pour
When you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail
Recorded by the Slim Gaillard Quartet
Atomic Records #215, 1946
Too frickin bad. They started it. We ended it. Death happens in wars.
Take note Iran!
In the spirit of a well controlled science experiment we should contrast it with “Nation Leveling” in Iran.
FRiend, I couldn't agree with you more! I'm all for it.
Interestingly, so did the losers.
Very few Japanese war criminals were prosecuted and punished. Yet it appears the vast majority of these "evil men" went right back to living normal, law-abiding lives, with Japan in fact having much lower crime rates than the victors. This includes, of course, almost all the survivors of the perpetrators of the Nanking massacre, the Bataan march and all the other Japanese atrocities.
The same appears to largely be true of the European "war criminals," mostly concentration camp guards, still exposed occasionally in USA. Most of them lived perfectly normal, law-abiding, even admirable lives for three or four decades after their crimes during the war.
We generally think of "war criminals" as being different from the rest of us, with the implication that there's something wrong with them and that they are by nature criminals and brutes.
The evidence is quite otherwise. It appears many, if not most, humans are capable of this type of behavior under the right circumstances, and equally capable of returning to normal lives when the conditions change.
Good, there are enough slackers already.
but there is no escaping our dark fate and all our attempts at defending our children are doomed to fail.
End it now. I don't want you to suffer or have to suffer myself through your miserable defeatist posts.
They're being taught that private ownership is evil and all those named marques cause global warming.
Each body in those pictures represents about 10 Japanese (and maybe 5 Americans) that didn’t die from an American invasion of Japan...
I’ve never quite understood the obsession with the A-bomb attacks.
We were already utterly destroying Japanese cities with fire bomb attacks, with loss of life in single attacks equivalent to or even higher than when the A-bombs were used.
The A-bombs were harbingers of greater terrors to come, but their use at the time provided no killing power that wasn’t perfectly available via other means.
It there really any moral difference between killing 100,000 people with tens of thousands of bombs dropped by 1000 planes, or using a single Bomb dropped by a single plane?
Had the USA funneled the resources used for the A-bomb into building more planes, ships, etc. they could have been used to kill a lot more people than with the few Bombs it had on hand by the end of the war.
Amen. And, dear God, may it never need to be used again.
It is also quite likely that without the Bomb Japan would have wound up partitioned like Korea was.
There’s a lovely thought.
The number I saw were more like 500,000 and 1,500,000...
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