(Click Image To Enlarge)The ruins of Hiroshima, as seen from the air, after the Japanese city was hit with an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. The photo was taken a month later, in September 1945. Photo by Life/George Silk
(Click Image To Enlarge)Hiroshima Today
My Comment: It is amazing how mankind can crawl out of the rubble, and rebuild everything (and more) within a few generations.
For me, the above two photos gives me the assurance that even if disaster should befall mankind, the survivors will always rise from the ashes to rebuild again.
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Before you go reassuring yourself, remember these were only 2 very small bombs.
http://www.visualnews.com/2012/04/24/visualizing-the-frightening-power-of-nuclear-bombs/
So true Ropestuff .... those two were very small nuclear bombs.
Terrifying when you think about it. The discrepancy between those 2 tiny bombs and what is available now. That info graphic showing Tzar Bomba compared to Little Boy and Fatman blew me away (no pun intended). I look at those panoramas you posted and I think about what a couple of Tzar Bombas might do and I can't even wrap my head around. The scale is astronomical.
That link I posted said Tzar Bomba blew out windows over 500 miles away!!!!!!!!!
Ropestuff .... I will be posting that graphic later today. The best description that I ever got on the power of nuclear weapons came from one of the managers of the U.S. MX program. He worked for the Department of Energy, and he oversaw (when it was permitted) underground nuclear tests. As he told me .... nuclear weapons and and the testing of these weapon systems is not an exact science .... that sometimes the test goes beyond what they expected. As he told me .... in one test a mine was drilled into the side of a mountain, a nuclear warhead was put in, and the hole was plugged with tens of thousands of sand bangs. When the bomb exploded .... those sandbags .... like a champagne cork .... blew out of the mine and hit the side of a mountain a half mile away. All he could do when he saw that .... was to run away as fast as possible from the test site.
Wow, sandbag artilary. That would have been a sight.
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