So after the detonation, was everything completely destroyed as seen here, or was it like mostly destroyed and also set on fire and this is the aftermath?
meta358 on
Why did they put up a sign in english? When basically no one spoke english?
Mansenmania on
Why was there a sign written in English?
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Hot-Bathroom-7739 on
A war crime. Nothing more
Hot-Bathroom-7739 on
You can read gen of Hiroshima.huge manga describing the horrors inflicted to civilians
marksbar on
Horrific. Wait , I see a starbucks down the street.
CastleDI on
Maybe this is just an avant-gout again. Sordide
Ok_Yogurtcloset5412 on
I used to know a woman that lived about 20 miles away from this when it happened. She was a child at the time but said it was awful for years.
Thedarknight725 on
And to think, the atomic bombing weren’t even the deadliest bombing of the war.
QBekka on
Most of these photos are taken a good while after the cleanup has started right?
What confuses me is the destruction of this bomb. On a site like [NukeMap](https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) you see that this bomb really isn’t that powerful. I mean, it barely is able to cause 3rd degree burns across all of Central Park in NYC, and everything outside that is ‘only’ light damage of 1 psi, which breaks glass windows at most.
Was the city of Nagasaki really that small that it looks completely flattened in these photos?
LockedInPelican on
This had to be done. I will take this over a mass land invasion that would have killed possibly countless Americans. Sorry not sorry
SalamanderGlad9053 on
The nuclear bombs weren’t uniquely deadly or destructive. A few months earlier, there was a fire bombing raid on Tokyo that killed more people than Nagasaki and destroyed a greater area of homes.
JesterScribblings on
Nagasaki rarely gets a mention. Usually Hiroshima.
Scary. But sadly necessary at the time.
Best_Celebration7847 on
They had it coming!
Jaca666 on
And for some reason ‘murica is still considered to be the hero of the war.
And don’t forget, current leaders would do it again.
DeathHorseFucker on
And to think there are a lot of people now claiming nuclear bombs aren’t real and just propaganda scare tactics.
GarlicBow on
I recently read “The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Bomb” by Alex Wellerstein. In it, Wellerstein argues that **a)** Truman did not understand the nature of the list of targets as being cities, but as military installations and **b)** *he was not aware* the Nagasaki bombing was moving forward so soon after the Hiroshima bombing. It’s a fascinating read, and it indicates how the nature of the use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki influenced Truman’s later shaping of policy on how the use ofatomic weapons would be authorized in the future.
MidwestFine on
The older I get, the more I’m realizing this was terrorism.
Fcuked4life on
The shadows burned into concrete always left a big impression on me.
There’s also the wild story of the guy who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This dude got nuked August 6th while on a business trip in Hiroshima and then still came into work at his regular office in Nagasaki on August 9th. Talk about bad luck but he lived a long life, died in 2008.
Hundreds of thousands of lives saved thanks to those two bombs, but even today it is a topic too difficult to debate for many people.
AreaUnique3594 on
people saying dropping these bombs was a war crIme now looking at it through a completely different lens Don’t know the history that led up to dropping these bombs. The United States had been bombing Japan for weeks prior, and fighting on the surrounding islands of Japan, losing thousand and thousands of men because the Japanese simply would not surrender, they refused. American marines had to literally dig out the Japanese, one by one in holes and tunnels. The Japanese were sacrificing the civilians, making them either fight or I’ll commit suicide. The Americans were dropping leaflets, and they would attach speakers to parachutes, begging not only the civilians but the Japanese soldiers to please surrender, the war had already been decided, yet they refused over and over.
Dropping a nuclear bomb, is horrible, and there is absolutely no disputing that. But the Japanese leadership at this time, was insane. They would not surrender,they thought that it would be honorable for all Japanese to die fighting, which is nuts. Even through bombing campaigns for weeks killing thousands of Japanese tens of thousands of civilians and still, Japanese leadership would refuse. when Emperor Hirohito finally surrendered, members of Japanese military leadership were incredibly angry, and some of them even attempted a coup.
Looking back at this time as a standalone event is absolutely the wrong way to view it. The allies, including United States did the calculations, and it would cost millions of lives for a ground force to take over Japan. And that’s what it was coming to, because of Japanese leadership refusing to surrender, ever and thinking everyone dying in the entire country was the honorable way to go. It’s simply insane, but that’s what led up to dropping these bombs. The war in the Pacific was very very different than the war in Europe. The Germans fought hard and well, but it was nothing like what the allies were dealing with in regard to the Japanese. They simply would not surrender, ever. They would not be taking his POW’s, if they were wounded, they would lay with grenades, and if ally troops came to get them on a stretcher, they would pull the pin and murder everyone.
the Japanese at the time we’re fanatical, they were incredibly difficult for the allies to contend with. millions of Japanese died because of this fanatical mindset that the entire Japanese military had at the time. The history of the Pacific during World War II was am unfathomable amount of death and carnage. Tens of millions died in China, the islands surrounding Japan, Korea, etc. It doesn’t get talked about anywhere near as much as Europe, but after five years of war the idea of sacrificing millions of Americans to conquer Japan on the ground was something no one in the United States had the stomach for. Not to mention the millions of Japanese that would die.
ApocalypticEvent on
I’ll never understand the strange revisionist history behind Japan’s soft power slowly turning this horrific event into something unnecessary. This bombing and the bluff that followed saved millions of Japanese lives at a horrific cost. It can be both heartbreaking and tragic while also being a success that saved more lives than it took by multiple magnitudes.
It should never happen again, though we cannot treat the one time it did happen as this horrible unspeakable thing America did, it was a calculated gamble to save millions of Japanese, American, and other allied lives.
No-Order-5568 on
And now Japan is turning footsteps into electricity.
skiddily_biddily on
This was a civilian population. Japan had already offered to surrender. The US and allies rejected it because they demanded a surrender with no conditions. Which is absurd. Ultimately the Allied forced did accept the surrender with conditions. So this attack on civilians was just a show of force. Only country has ever nuked a foreign civilian population.
K10RumbleRumble on
Fun that I’ve been seeing so many posts about this awful event. 8PM ET. I really hope the copy pasta of the tweet timeline isn’t actually at the end..
It would be fucking hilariously fitting for the end of the world to be teased on twitter by a spray tanned useful idiot.
banshee81818 on
Looks like Gaza.
TheGreatOni1200 on
Managers be like “you’re still coming in right?”
trash_babe on
Everyone in this comments section needs to watch The Day After, or Threads, or both, to maybe fully being to understand how utterly fucked up nuclear war is. The fact that it even still EXISTS as an option is disgusting to me as a human being.
Background_Award_878 on
I thought this was *Atomic* and *Nuclear* is different as well as stronger?
I think a large portion of the world’s population needs to take a massive dose of psychedelics and watch “Grave of the Fireflies.”
Or just watch the movie. Whatever you do or don’t feel, by the end, will tell you a lot about yourself.
Main-Rent4757 on
That’s pretty rad
Sannora9900 on
And people will come and say thanks to USA and its brave soldiers world is safer 🥰🥰🥰.
jetkins on
I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m misremembering, but I believe the building (wall) in the second photo still stands today, as part of memorial site.
Legitimate-Cow5982 on
Fyi, this is the tame stuff. No ant walkers, no degloved people or animals, no charred corpses of children and infants
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aftermath : 35,000 to 80,000 deaths
Please let it not happen again, please
American bombing, not explosion.
Makes me sad…
Deserved it
So after the detonation, was everything completely destroyed as seen here, or was it like mostly destroyed and also set on fire and this is the aftermath?
Why did they put up a sign in english? When basically no one spoke english?
Why was there a sign written in English?
[deleted]
A war crime. Nothing more
You can read gen of Hiroshima.huge manga describing the horrors inflicted to civilians
Horrific. Wait , I see a starbucks down the street.
Maybe this is just an avant-gout again. Sordide
I used to know a woman that lived about 20 miles away from this when it happened. She was a child at the time but said it was awful for years.
And to think, the atomic bombing weren’t even the deadliest bombing of the war.
Most of these photos are taken a good while after the cleanup has started right?
What confuses me is the destruction of this bomb. On a site like [NukeMap](https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/) you see that this bomb really isn’t that powerful. I mean, it barely is able to cause 3rd degree burns across all of Central Park in NYC, and everything outside that is ‘only’ light damage of 1 psi, which breaks glass windows at most.
Was the city of Nagasaki really that small that it looks completely flattened in these photos?
This had to be done. I will take this over a mass land invasion that would have killed possibly countless Americans. Sorry not sorry
The nuclear bombs weren’t uniquely deadly or destructive. A few months earlier, there was a fire bombing raid on Tokyo that killed more people than Nagasaki and destroyed a greater area of homes.
Nagasaki rarely gets a mention. Usually Hiroshima.
Scary. But sadly necessary at the time.
They had it coming!
And for some reason ‘murica is still considered to be the hero of the war.
And don’t forget, current leaders would do it again.
And to think there are a lot of people now claiming nuclear bombs aren’t real and just propaganda scare tactics.
I recently read “The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Bomb” by Alex Wellerstein. In it, Wellerstein argues that **a)** Truman did not understand the nature of the list of targets as being cities, but as military installations and **b)** *he was not aware* the Nagasaki bombing was moving forward so soon after the Hiroshima bombing. It’s a fascinating read, and it indicates how the nature of the use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki influenced Truman’s later shaping of policy on how the use ofatomic weapons would be authorized in the future.
The older I get, the more I’m realizing this was terrorism.
The shadows burned into concrete always left a big impression on me.
There’s also the wild story of the guy who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This dude got nuked August 6th while on a business trip in Hiroshima and then still came into work at his regular office in Nagasaki on August 9th. Talk about bad luck but he lived a long life, died in 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi
Hundreds of thousands of lives saved thanks to those two bombs, but even today it is a topic too difficult to debate for many people.
people saying dropping these bombs was a war crIme now looking at it through a completely different lens Don’t know the history that led up to dropping these bombs. The United States had been bombing Japan for weeks prior, and fighting on the surrounding islands of Japan, losing thousand and thousands of men because the Japanese simply would not surrender, they refused. American marines had to literally dig out the Japanese, one by one in holes and tunnels. The Japanese were sacrificing the civilians, making them either fight or I’ll commit suicide. The Americans were dropping leaflets, and they would attach speakers to parachutes, begging not only the civilians but the Japanese soldiers to please surrender, the war had already been decided, yet they refused over and over.
Dropping a nuclear bomb, is horrible, and there is absolutely no disputing that. But the Japanese leadership at this time, was insane. They would not surrender,they thought that it would be honorable for all Japanese to die fighting, which is nuts. Even through bombing campaigns for weeks killing thousands of Japanese tens of thousands of civilians and still, Japanese leadership would refuse. when Emperor Hirohito finally surrendered, members of Japanese military leadership were incredibly angry, and some of them even attempted a coup.
Looking back at this time as a standalone event is absolutely the wrong way to view it. The allies, including United States did the calculations, and it would cost millions of lives for a ground force to take over Japan. And that’s what it was coming to, because of Japanese leadership refusing to surrender, ever and thinking everyone dying in the entire country was the honorable way to go. It’s simply insane, but that’s what led up to dropping these bombs. The war in the Pacific was very very different than the war in Europe. The Germans fought hard and well, but it was nothing like what the allies were dealing with in regard to the Japanese. They simply would not surrender, ever. They would not be taking his POW’s, if they were wounded, they would lay with grenades, and if ally troops came to get them on a stretcher, they would pull the pin and murder everyone.
the Japanese at the time we’re fanatical, they were incredibly difficult for the allies to contend with. millions of Japanese died because of this fanatical mindset that the entire Japanese military had at the time. The history of the Pacific during World War II was am unfathomable amount of death and carnage. Tens of millions died in China, the islands surrounding Japan, Korea, etc. It doesn’t get talked about anywhere near as much as Europe, but after five years of war the idea of sacrificing millions of Americans to conquer Japan on the ground was something no one in the United States had the stomach for. Not to mention the millions of Japanese that would die.
I’ll never understand the strange revisionist history behind Japan’s soft power slowly turning this horrific event into something unnecessary. This bombing and the bluff that followed saved millions of Japanese lives at a horrific cost. It can be both heartbreaking and tragic while also being a success that saved more lives than it took by multiple magnitudes.
It should never happen again, though we cannot treat the one time it did happen as this horrible unspeakable thing America did, it was a calculated gamble to save millions of Japanese, American, and other allied lives.
And now Japan is turning footsteps into electricity.
This was a civilian population. Japan had already offered to surrender. The US and allies rejected it because they demanded a surrender with no conditions. Which is absurd. Ultimately the Allied forced did accept the surrender with conditions. So this attack on civilians was just a show of force. Only country has ever nuked a foreign civilian population.
Fun that I’ve been seeing so many posts about this awful event. 8PM ET. I really hope the copy pasta of the tweet timeline isn’t actually at the end..
It would be fucking hilariously fitting for the end of the world to be teased on twitter by a spray tanned useful idiot.
Looks like Gaza.
Managers be like “you’re still coming in right?”
Everyone in this comments section needs to watch The Day After, or Threads, or both, to maybe fully being to understand how utterly fucked up nuclear war is. The fact that it even still EXISTS as an option is disgusting to me as a human being.
I thought this was *Atomic* and *Nuclear* is different as well as stronger?
https://preview.redd.it/p012rwlgvltg1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd9790466a18fdb2acc5998fc83c2bb9d212257f
I hate this.
I think a large portion of the world’s population needs to take a massive dose of psychedelics and watch “Grave of the Fireflies.”
Or just watch the movie. Whatever you do or don’t feel, by the end, will tell you a lot about yourself.
That’s pretty rad
And people will come and say thanks to USA and its brave soldiers world is safer 🥰🥰🥰.
I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m misremembering, but I believe the building (wall) in the second photo still stands today, as part of memorial site.
Fyi, this is the tame stuff. No ant walkers, no degloved people or animals, no charred corpses of children and infants
sad
https://preview.redd.it/gcvf0pjlxltg1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=f31dc8a74893ef0d3371eb809bef94731699a1b4
The US show photos with no corpses…
The US is the only country who has used the nuclear bomb on people.
They could do it again with this crazy administration.
For years the US has warned us about other countries obtaining nuclear weapons, but maybe it was the US that was and is the biggest threat all along.
https://preview.redd.it/4qymytfuxltg1.png?width=550&format=png&auto=webp&s=37dd2e9b4de664ceaa32803ac23c119dc5dcfb62
think of these when someone sitting in a chair tell you, “how to survive an atomic attack”