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| Sixty years ago; sixty years from now |
| 2005-08-06 |
| Sixty years ago today, on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing approximately 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in war. That's a sobering thought with today's Rantburg news being filled with stories on North Korea's nuclear program, Iran's nuclear progran, Pakistan's missile development, etc. Where will we draw the line with this new axis of evil? Will we draw the line? Who will be the victors when the people of 2065 look back to these times? I fear that 2065 -- when my children should be retiring -- will be an ugly, nasty world because we did not have the will halt the creeping menace. |
| Posted by:Ebbetch Uneresh6677 |
| #2 Didn't the firebombing of Tokyo kill 100,000 outright? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-08-06 22:08 |
| #1 killing approximately 140,000 people Bogus numbers. If you demand they show where they got them, its usually referencing someone else. Its a long dig and you discover, it was pulled out of someone's ass. The development group really wanted to know the full effect of the weapons and did a very indepth analysis. They weren't hiding anything. They found the Japanese rice ration allocations which identified everyone in the city. They then conducted a census, not a statistical sample. The census included interviews which asked each interviewee who lived in their neighborhoods and streets. Very systematic, which the big number people can not show similar methodologies. The final number killed outright and immediately following from various causes was around 65,000, the long term radition numbers tracked both by the US and the Japanese government was an additional 5,000. So why the difference between 70,000 and 140,000, probably to cover the massive slaughter of Chinese as at Nanking and Filipinos at Manilia [Feb '45]. It the big victim game tagged to the anti-American crowd. |
| Posted by: Slock Phavilet4871 2005-08-06 20:20 |