HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
Added on: 23rd Jul 2016
NEARLY A QUARTER OF THE DEATHS IN
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI WERE ACTUALLY
KOREANS WHO HAD BEEN CONSCRIPTED
TO FIGHT IN THE WAR
INITIALLY, THE US DENIED THE FACT THAT
THE NUCLEAR BLASTS WOULD LEAVE BEHIND
ANY RADIOACTIVITY
NEITHER HIROSHIMA NOR NAGASAKI WERE THE
MOST DESTRUCTIVE BOMBING ATTACKS OF
WORLD WAR II. THAT TITLE BELONGS TO
OPERATION MEETINGHOUSE, WHICH WAS THE
ALLIED FIREBOMBING OF TOKYO. IN FACT,
IT HAS BEEN LABELLED THE MOST
DESTRUCTIVE BOMBING RAID IN HISTORY
ONLY THREE OUT OF THE TWELVE PEOPLE ON
THE ENOLA GAY (THE BOMBER) KNEW WHAT
THEIR ACTUAL MISSION WAS
THE FLAME OF PEACE IN HIROSHIMA HAS BEEN
BURNING SINCE 1964 AND WILL ONLY BE PUT OUT
WHEN THERE ARE NO MORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS
IN THE WORLD
KYOTO WAS SPARED FROM BEING BOMBED BECAUSE
HENRY L STIMSON, THE US SECRETARY OF WAR
HAD ADMIRED THE CITY WHEN HE WENT THERE
ON HIS HONEYMOON MANY YEARS EARLIER.
NAGASAKI WAS SELECTED INSTEAD
IT TOOK TOKYO ABOUT 3 HOURS TO REALIZE THAT
HIROSHIMA HAD BEEN DESTROYED. THEY DIDN'T
KNOW WHAT HAD ACTUALLY HAPPENED UNTIL
16 HOURS LATER WHEN WASHINGTON ANNOUNCED IT
PRIOR TO THE BOMBING, JAPANESE OPERATORS
DETECTED A SMALL NUMBER OF INCOMING US
PLANES. THEY DECIDED NOT TO INTERCEPT,
HOWEVER, BECAUSE THE SMALL NUMBER
MADE IT SEEM LIKE THEY WERE NOT A THREAT
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