Comments on: Hiroshima, 64 Years Ago

By: Aucan

Aucan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:14:16 +0000

Oh, really? US Warned? they threw leaflets? then its completely right, burn them all!!

By: lunacy

lunacy — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:04:52 +0000

@ Lasse

The US dropped millions of warning leaflets on Nagasaki, Hiroshima and other cities prior to the detonations of either bomb.

http://tinyurl.com/nqnwf6

By: tt

tt — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:58:17 +0000

that’s for starting the war in the first place…

By: konaha

konaha — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:08:53 +0000

let’s hope pictures like this will remind people of the disastrous effects of war..

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:34:29 +0000

Some of these conspiracy theories don’t sound quite as crazy as they used to.

I mean, didn’t a bunch of greedy white bankers just fuck up an entire world’s economy while chasing profit?

By: mav

mav — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:59:48 +0000

Everything in the world can be blamed on “white” US citizens that are Christian, especially if Catholic and male.
You can even blame them for not getting into the fight sooner! Hoo doggies, I bet them sumbitches wanted to kill them some heathen asses back then. They were even willing to die in tens of thousands to do it! Man, what assholes. I wish I could say their sacrifice was worth it.

By: Aucan

Aucan — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:17:49 +0000

@ D Bozco – “Do you want evil to win” – take your head away from your playstation-CNN-Bush-Hollywood Life and think for a second, please… when you drop an atomic bomb over a city you destroy schools, theaters, artists, gardeners… Of course that’s not what you’ve been told, probably they tell you they eat american kids for breakfast… And they are told that Americans eat japanese kids for dinner… Great profit for some…

By: D Bozko

D Bozko — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:45:51 +0000

I’d actuall prefer to be vaporized in a millisecond as opposed to being burned, maimed or blown up.

@ Rokefeller. It doesn’t make you subhuman to have to take a human life if the justification is great enough. The Japanes government decided on their course of world domination without regard for even their own people. What was the world supposed to do, just sit back and let them? There was no “small group of banking families” running things. Do you think the Japanese emperor (who was thought of as a god by the way) would act upon the desires of foreigners? Learn your history. Defending yourself or your country from evil does indeed justify the taking of human life. There are people, individuals, groups and countries, that want to kill you right now just for who you are. It is and always has been, them or us. Do you want evil to win? Hiroshima was a necessary event to prevent even more killing.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:19:52 +0000

felixthecat >> In a conventional attack with a fleet of bombers, the civilians would have got an air raid warning, and at least a little chance to survive. Still better than being vaporized in a millisecond.

By: Rokefeller

Rokefeller — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:24:59 +0000

Disgusting how so many people think the taking of ANY human life can be “justified”. The best part about you subhumans is that you’re all probably unaware that a small group of banking families (people still in power to this day) from the U.S. and other countries funded all sides of the war to consolidate power and make insane profits. Most wars are catalyzed and perpetuated for profit alone. Give me a call when you guys become semi-lucid and figure out how war and humanity actually function these days.

By: Larfin Jackarse

Larfin Jackarse — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:00:23 +0000

@TimO
Everyone forgets that it was known that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki (as well as the alternate targets) contained hundreds of ALLIED POWs.

@Charles, we do now. I have an idea!

@TimO. Did you hear about the release of official papers the other day from the UK re: UK/Canadian plans for bio-poison darts and gas to be dropped on German cities….in the final phases of the war. Apparently they wanted to impress the USSR how ruthless we were but the engineering boffo’s (damn them) couldn’t get them to work w/o too much collateral damage. Hmmmmm….I wonder if an atomic bomb would impress the commies.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:02:08 +0000

‘Necessary Evil’ was the name of the B29 who took Hiroshima’s bombing pictures. I think its name sums it all.

By: mule

mule — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:13:31 +0000

they never really dropped them. it was a governemnt hoax you idiots.

By: glassmusic

glassmusic — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:40:53 +0000

we were warned about the attack on Pearl Harbor, just as they were warned about those two bombs. hell, we tried to get them to surrender after the first one, and they refused. im not saying the people that died deserved it. im saying their government could have stopped it but didnt.

By: ByrdBrain

ByrdBrain — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:46:41 +0000

Hiroshima and Nagasaki wuz an inside job!!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:09:22 +0000

At least it wasn’t a sneak attack.

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:11:08 +0000

Where’s VonSkippy, I have a feeling he might have some thoughts on this

By: felixthecat

felixthecat — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:01:40 +0000

Would critics be happier if we had fire bombed the city instead and people hiding in their basements melted in the heat? “It’s nucular so it’s bad autamatically!”

By: Kalel

Kalel — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:53:14 +0000

Even ‘The Good War’ was wretched, as war is at best.

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:39:16 +0000

Not a nice picture right there.

By: star4589

star4589 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:26:42 +0000

Wow, amazing pictures. I like the contrast of the last pic of the old building versus the reconstructed ones.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:14:39 +0000

It was a shame we didn’t have more than two bombs.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:02:57 +0000

It’s interesting that they built the city back up, but left the iconic dome building as a skeletal reminder of that sad day.

By: ByrdBrain

ByrdBrain — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:24:11 +0000

Why I killed 113 myself before breakfast!!

By: ~April

~April — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:12:39 +0000

War is hell.

-William Tecumseh Sherman

By: Aucan

Aucan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:17:38 +0000

We haven’t learn anything… US (others too, but specially US) still kills hundreds daily and we still have people like TimO that justifies it…

By: TimO

TimO — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:05:01 +0000

Everyone forgets that it was known that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki (as well as the alternate targets) contained hundreds of American POWs. The Japanese put POWs in all their cities to try to keep the US bombers from destroying their war factories.

And the US was not the only side attempting intercontinental devestation. The Japanese had a program of launching large balloons with bombs (leading towards sending biological weapons) towards the US. Many landed in the western US and Canada; one family of picnicers was killed and the existence of the balloon bombs was kept classified for decades after the war….

By: Lasse

Lasse — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:09:00 +0000

Geekazoid >> You beat med to it.

By: Geekazoid

Geekazoid — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:03:42 +0000

Expect back and forth bickering between it was justified/saved lives versus it was not necessary and extreme, in 5, 4, 3…..

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:55:13 +0000

What a sad day.