The Bombing of Nagasaki - Interesting WWII Footage
Feb 10, 2014 14:33:10 #
Feb 10, 2014 14:55:21 #
It is scary , but I believe it was necessary to end what they had started .
Feb 10, 2014 15:11:17 #
Looking at the men painting the bomb, you'd think they were giving a boat the odd coat of paint on a nice summers day down the local marina. So casual unbelievable.
Feb 10, 2014 15:25:32 #
FRENCHY wrote:
It is scary , but I believe it was necessary to end what they had started .
Cloudy weather elsewhere determined the death, destruction and fate of Nagasaki.
Not all that died or were maimed were guilty.... nor did they even have a voice. Many suffered for the sins of the few.
Feb 10, 2014 15:35:00 #
robert-photos wrote:
Cloudy weather elsewhere determined the death, destruction and fate of Nagasaki.
Not all that died or were maimed were guilty.... nor did they even have a voice. Many suffered for the sins of the few.
Not all that died or were maimed were guilty.... nor did they even have a voice. Many suffered for the sins of the few.
Isn't the reason for war , hurting the population ?
Feb 10, 2014 15:36:01 #
Horrible times. I was born about a year after all this happened. Everybody older than I am remembered the war and most of the men I knew had been in it. What a terrible way to finish a terrible war. We have to ask ourselves, "what if the Japanese or Germans had perfected the atomic bomb before we did?" It would certainly be a different world today.
Feb 10, 2014 21:34:03 #
FRENCHY wrote:
Isn't the reason for war , hurting the population ?
And that's a desirable result? I wonder how many of the over 40,000 that died on that day were children under the age of five.
Feb 10, 2014 23:16:29 #
robert-photos wrote:
And that's a desirable result? I wonder how many of the over 40,000 that died on that day were children under the age of five.
NO, is not , but the idea was there since the beginning of time . Nothing like that is desirable , unfortunately this is the way "they" think it as to be done .It will be a dream to live in a world without violence or wars , but this world do not exist for now . Maybe in a very long future !!!
Feb 11, 2014 00:21:56 #
FRENCHY wrote:
NO, is not , but the idea was there since the beginning of time . Nothing like that is desirable , unfortunately this is the way "they" think it as to be done .It will be a dream to live in a world without violence or wars , but this world do not exist for now . Maybe in a very long future !!!
Yeah. ... What if they threw a war and nobody came.
Feb 11, 2014 00:24:19 #
robert-photos wrote:
Yeah. ... What if they threw a war and nobody came.
No senses to trow a war then !!!
Feb 11, 2014 06:09:32 #
Feb 11, 2014 06:30:01 #
Graham Thirkill wrote:
Looking at the men painting the bomb, you'd think they were giving a boat the odd coat of paint on a nice summers day down the local marina. So casual unbelievable.
There was a different attitude prevalent at the time;
During the war "annihilationist and exterminationalist rhetoric" was tolerated at all levels of U.S. society; according to the British embassy in Washington the Americans regarded the Japanese as "a nameless mass of vermin".[200] Caricatures depicting Japanese as less than human, e.g. monkeys, were common.[200] A 1944 opinion poll that asked what should be done with Japan found that 13% of the U.S. public were in favor of "killing off" all Japanese: men, women, and children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Feb 11, 2014 07:52:24 #
Crwiwy wrote:
There was a different attitude prevalent at the ti... (show quote)
Unfortunately we haven't made much progress. Nations are still seeking the power of the bomb. There's still talk about nations annihilating other nations. My religion is the only true one, so on & so on!. I can only repeat what has been said so eloquently in just one word, "IMAGINE!"
Feb 11, 2014 08:09:21 #
Here's a thought. What if we had a war and the politicians told the Generals - we'll stay out of it, you go and win this one. (Korea, VietNam, Irag, Afganistan)
Feb 11, 2014 08:34:46 #
Nikocarol
Loc: NM & FL
I happen to have worked with a few of these gentlemen who made, installed this monster(although they don't say who).
One of the wives of the men who tested these bombs in the South Pacific and Trinity said as they saw the news after it went off.."Oh my God, look at what we did".
I am with a client right now who is still being interviewed about this time. He is fully classified and feels committed to that. He in his late nineties. Interesting group indeed.
One of the wives also made comment that all of the gentlemen who did the test in the South Pacific all died of the same cancer. According to her they were clueless as to the effects of it all. Tragic!!!
One of the wives of the men who tested these bombs in the South Pacific and Trinity said as they saw the news after it went off.."Oh my God, look at what we did".
I am with a client right now who is still being interviewed about this time. He is fully classified and feels committed to that. He in his late nineties. Interesting group indeed.
One of the wives also made comment that all of the gentlemen who did the test in the South Pacific all died of the same cancer. According to her they were clueless as to the effects of it all. Tragic!!!
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