This short video of Tokyo under nuclear attack was pieced together using footage from a 1984 NHK documentary about nuclear war, which featured a high-tech (at the time) simulation showing the impact an 8-megaton bomb explosion would have on the city. The soundtrack is Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" (1982) as performed by Yo La Tengo (2002). Peace.
[Link: Video of Tokyo nuclear attack]
RacetrackOwner
The "dark day in history" was when Japan chose to join the Axis powers in a bid to take over the world. It is unfortunate that destruction of this magnitude was required to convince Imperial Japan that they were thoroughly outgunned, but Japan was not the victim, they were the aggressor. Nothing can ever change that fact.
[]mrG
the wife and I were watching a CBC Newsworld docu-flick on Hiroshima; scenes like the mother having to stand by the flames engulfing her preschool daughter, even if true ... "how could THEY do such terrible things to people?"
But tell me, to the child running screaming body burning from white-hot phosphorous stuck to their skin that burns even in water, to the village turned into living Hell by the cutsey-named Daisy-Cutter, wtf is the difference? They show you Hiroshima as a straw dog, easy to hate but so long ago, easy to forget. It makes you feel superior, enlightened to know that was then and this is now. They don't show you the rocket they shot this morning, sandwich-sized yellow packets of death scattered in the playgrounds, or the full effects of a single Uranium bullet that can rip off an arm a mile away.
[]ultrafly
Sure, the Japanese imperialists were the aggressors and the army committed untold atrocities. They had to be stopped. But I don't see how that justifies dropping a nuclear weapon on what was mostly a civilian population. By "aggressors", do you mean all the kids and old women and pets that were killed in Hiroshima? If Japan had dropped a nuclear weapon on a US city, it would have been considered a crime against humanity. The US military does it and it's OK (unfortunate, but justified) because they win the war.
Napalm, daisy cutters, phosphorous, depleted uranium, cluster bombs... take your pick. They're all WMD, no matter who uses them...
[]susheel mehra
AVOID NUCLEAR FIGHT THINK BEYOND PERSONAL , POLTICAL BENEFITS
[]IF NUCLEAR POLLUTION DESTROY EARTH THEN WHERE WILL WE GO ?
Fenky
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