Daily Mail: Nagasaki remembers its dead: Thousands gather to light lanterns in memory of 74,000 killed when U.S. planes dropped atom bomb on Japanese city in 1945
* 74,000 died when U.S. dropped an atom bomb known as 'Fat Man' on Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945
* Thousands of lanterns lit at Nagasaki Peace Park on the eve of 70th anniversary of the attack, which killed 74,000
* An image of the blast's mushroom cloud was beamed onto Urakami Cathedral which was destroyed in the attack
* Three days ago, tens of thousands gathered in Hiroshima to remember the 140,000 who died in another bombing
Japan has united to remember the 74,000 killed and 75,000 wounded when an atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the attack.
Thousands of paper lanterns were lit at a poignant vigil at the Nagasaki Peace Park to remember the lives lost when United States planes attacked the city on August 9, 1945.
An image of the mushroom cloud created by the blast was projected onto the Urakami Cathedral which was destroyed in the bombing and rebuilt in 1949.
The U.S. also bombed the Japanese city of Hiroshima just three days before, killing 140,000. The twin attacks were the first and only time atomic bombs have been used on a civilian population.
Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945, brought an end to the Second World War.
Japan Commemorates The 70th Anniversary Of The Nagasaki Atomic Bombing
Nagasaki bombing remembered with calls for Japan to stay off path of war -- The Guardian/AP
Japan Commemorates 70th Anniversary of Nagasaki Atomic Bombing -- WSJ
Japan remembers Nagasaki atomic bomb, 70 years on -- BBC
On 70th Anniversary of Nagasaki Bombing, Atomic Debate Yields Little Consensus -- New York Times
What Nagasaki looked like before and after the bomb -- Washington Post
BY THE NUMBERS: The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki -- AP
5 comments:
I guess the point is Some victims of WW2 are worth more than others.
St Petersburg suffered slow death by starvation. Stalingrad was leveled conventionally thought bombing and artillery. I guess that is better than a nuke. The Ethiopians were gassed in the run up to WW2. Hamburg burned for 4 days due to the firestorms.
The Rape of Nanking where more people were killed has to take a back seat to Nagasaki. I guess genocide and human trafficking is no big thing.
Few remember Manila.
Did Hollyweird ever make a movie about the Battle for Manila or a recent remake?
Or is the a documentary?
There is a good documentary of the Rape of Nanking. It would be a good thing to pull out every time someone goes all anti-nuke.
I'm sure I've posted this before,
but my father was in Germany just
after the war. He often asked
Germans when they knew the war
was lost. He got answers of
"Stalingrad," "Invasion of France,"
"Battle of the Bulge." He was
stationed in Japan in the early
'50s and asked the same question
of the Japanese. The uniform
answer was that they were
completely surprised at the
surrender. It never occurred
to the Japanese that they would
lose.
Not a scientific sample to be
sure, but indicative nonetheless.
ofs
A Japanese diplomat told me the same thing OFS. It would be something like if it was the Japanese who had developed the A-bomb first and used it in 1942 on a city like San Francisco resulting in a U.S> surrender. An inconceivable thought becoming very conceivable.
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