and we lost another Hibakusha survivor last year, Shigeko Sasamori, who spent the rest of her life working for global peace. One of the Hiroshima Maidens who were helped by Norman Cousins. (with my son who was then the age she had been Aug. 6, 1945)

You'd like to think we'd never forget, but I'm not so sure.

I was at the USAF Museum a few weeks ago, and they have Bockscar there, the actual B-29 that dropped it on Nagasaki. It's sobering to be next to, but our Docent also said that the devastation from the incendiary bombs LeMay switched us to using was even more severe. Horrors upon horrors.

The physicist's original sin.

My wife's grandpa (RIP) saw the nuke go off at Hiroshima, he was on the way back to base from a bombing run elsewhere on the island and saw it from the top dome of their B-24... Was a hell of a story to hear retold.

Whoa. Hell of a story indeed.

History matters

That was a dumb comment. I meant: learning history matters.

Most people still don't know that it was completely unnecessary and was opposed by all the top brass.

"Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it." Yeah... but... "Those who DO learn history are doomed to watch as all the idiots repeat it anyway." It will happen again. Or worse.

Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow was interviewed on CBC's Sunday Magazine. Repeated(?) today. 93 yo now, she is still in the fight against this apocalyptic weaponry. Her late husband Jim was my history teacher as an HS freshman. His passionate teachings against nuclear arms were formative.

Around 200,000 in the city in 1945? (192 to 263 is the range I see). So 40%ish. 21 kiloton bomb. ~half died in the weeks following. If you are the "lucky" half next time, avoid the black rain and any dust. It's the particulates that give the radiation time to kill you & starving / dehydration, etc..

Horrific.

I’m surprised it took them so long to count. The process to get that update should be harrowing but essential.

80k dead. That was about a week of Chinese dead in august 45.

And this doesn't factor in birth defects... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha

The bombs used in Japan were small fission devices. The fusion bombs we have now are multiple orders of magnitude more powerful. It is literally insane to have these weapons available.

Completely unnecessary, completely unrelated to ending the war. Eisenhower, Stimson, Leahy, Nimitz, Halsey, LeMay among others were opposed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_...

As awful as it was, I'm glad we found out the devastation of nuclear weapons in their infancy, rather than years later when the process was more refined.

Surelook give it time.

Most don’t realize the same WWII bomb program that devastated Hiroshima also launched the fluoride program. The first neurotoxicity warnings came then. The Fluoride Deception interview: www.democracynow.org/2004/6/17/th...

Industries are aware of and try to mitigate the hazardous effects of fluoride/flourine industrial waste by-products. Regulations were imposed back then for disposal and advances in industry create new challenges, but the amount found in drinking water is safe, if regulatory agencies are functional.