NAGASAKI (Kyodo) A team of researchers has succeeded in photographing radioactive rays coming from the cells of people who died in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The pictures are evidence that the nuclear "death ash" continues to emit radiation from a corpse even after 60-plus years, according to Kazuko Shichijo, an assistant professor at Nagasaki University, a member of the team.
I also read an article in the Japanese magazine Aera this week claiming the U.S. used the weapons _ even though it believed Japan was already on the verge of surrendering _ to see how the bombs affected humans. In other words, the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were experimental guinea pigs for the U.S. military. As evidence, the article noted the U.S. dropped a uranium bomb on Hiroshima and a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki - and sent in researchers to examine residents in both cities as soon as the war was over.
I think this raises a good point - why did the U.S. use a plutonium bomb in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 if it already saw the uranium bomb worked in Hiroshima on Aug. 6?
The U.S. line has always been that President Truman ordered the bombs used to save lives in the view millions of Japanese and Americans would have died during a U.S. invasion of the mainland.
My dad, who survived the extremely bloody Battle of Okinawa in and was scheduled to join the mainland invasion as a grunt in the Marine Corps, tended to agree with this view. But it's an issue worth studying.
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I've heard many reasons why the second bomb was dropped--to make sure everyone knew it wasn't a fluke; so that the Japanese--and the Russians--knew we could make more. Testing a plutonium bomb along with a uranium bomb makes some scientific sense, if not sense of any other kind.
Still, in Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut said this: "I knew a single word that proved our democratic government was capable of committing obscene, gleefully rabid and racist, yahooistic murders of unarmed men, women, and children, murders wholly devoid of military common sense. I said the word. It was a foreign word. That word was Nagasaki."
they only had two bombs.
Fat Man, plutonium
Little Boy, uranium
The second was dropped because Japan did not surrender fast enough, and due to possible translation error
http://www.military-quotes.com/forum/u-s-dropped-bombs-two-t22526.html
Of course you could just say that it was also to flex in front of the USSR and make sure that Japan surrendered to the US and not the Reds.
The Japanese Premier should have disemboweled himself for using such vague language.
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