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The resiliency shown in the rebuilding of Hiroshima is amazing to me. Thanks SGT John " Mac " McConnell McConnell for sharing the video of the Nagasaki bombing that led me to this video.
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Compare Hiroshima and Nagasaki then to Detroit then. Then compare them today. More illuminating than a radioactive glow...
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That's a great video, thanks for posting it. Japan did a wonderful job rebuilding.
In fact, they did an awesome job rebuilding everything following the end of the war.
It would do well for each of us to remember that the atomic bombing of two cities only represented a tiny fraction of the atrocities war drove us to commit in our drive for victory.
Not counting Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 67 cities in Japan were firebombed. These 69 cities pretty much represented all population centers of 100,000 or more people. Death estimates range from 241,000 to 900,000 people total.
Google "Tokyo fire bombing victims" for unadulterated images of what warfare is like. Charred bodies of men, women, and children stacked like cordwood, an entire city laid waste amid piles of ash and rubble. 51% of the city destroyed in one night with about 100,000 dead.
And 67 cities were visited with death and destruction in exactly the same manner before we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Many people like to point at the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and cry "Oh, the horror!"
The plain reality of the matter is that WAR is horror, in all it's iterations. We've been proving this throughout human history, in every corner of the world. History is full of examples where entire city-states were totally destroyed; cities, towns, and villages where every man, woman, and child was slaughtered. In Carthage, with an initial population of about 500,000 people, only 50,000 survived and they were all sold into slavery.
Chemical and biological warfare spans centuries before the modern warfare of the 20th century, though many people don't really think about this.
In fact, they did an awesome job rebuilding everything following the end of the war.
It would do well for each of us to remember that the atomic bombing of two cities only represented a tiny fraction of the atrocities war drove us to commit in our drive for victory.
Not counting Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 67 cities in Japan were firebombed. These 69 cities pretty much represented all population centers of 100,000 or more people. Death estimates range from 241,000 to 900,000 people total.
Google "Tokyo fire bombing victims" for unadulterated images of what warfare is like. Charred bodies of men, women, and children stacked like cordwood, an entire city laid waste amid piles of ash and rubble. 51% of the city destroyed in one night with about 100,000 dead.
And 67 cities were visited with death and destruction in exactly the same manner before we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Many people like to point at the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and cry "Oh, the horror!"
The plain reality of the matter is that WAR is horror, in all it's iterations. We've been proving this throughout human history, in every corner of the world. History is full of examples where entire city-states were totally destroyed; cities, towns, and villages where every man, woman, and child was slaughtered. In Carthage, with an initial population of about 500,000 people, only 50,000 survived and they were all sold into slavery.
Chemical and biological warfare spans centuries before the modern warfare of the 20th century, though many people don't really think about this.
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Been to Tinian on one of the Commissary runs that flew from Guam and up the island chain in the 70s. Lot of changes, but some stuff still there and by far the best SCUBA diving I ever experienced. This video is proof that things can come back after a nuclear bomb attack.
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