#the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki

[motordyk]

every day i think about the time a boomer said "young people dont really understand what nuclear warfare means. they werent there" bitch. what about the people who used to live in hiroshima and can no longer experience life without remembering what happened there. what about the young people who have lost family members they will never meet because of nuclear warfare. the people who work in assisted living? the disabled people who will never be able to view the world they live in the same way again? the people who have experienced generational trauma? every time i think of someone who says these things i can only hope that war will come to this country just so they know what it feels like to be completely hopeless and destitute

[theconcealedweapon]

Americans: "I don't understand how people could possibly be cruel enough to believe that 9/11 was justified. Only a monster could believe that."

Americans: "Nuking Japan was justified."

[trans-rights-coastalmangoes]

just finished trigun maximum. can't believe they expect me to just continue on with my day like nothing happened

[enbycrip]

If you’re not aware, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were deliberately not bombed with the firebombs that destroyed most of Tokyo and other Japanese cities in 1945 because they were two of a number of cities deliberately selected as locations for atomic bombings.

They wanted a “pristine” test of their new weapon on a previously undamaged city.

The US knew those cities were full of civilian refugees when they bombed them. They had herded them there.

Parallels, huh?

[captain-price-unofficially]

Japanese mother and her son in the rubble of Hiroshima, four months after the bomb was dropped. Dec 1945

[sarahalainn]

8月6日 広島 🕊️

Lest we forget, 6th August Hiroshima

#HiroshimaDay

8月9日 長崎🕊️

Lest we forget, 9th August Nagasaki

#NagasakiDay

… and yet the world keeps forgetting

一本の鉛筆が、あれば　

「戦争は嫌だ」と、私は書く

[humanoidhistory]

"First picture of results of atomic bomb." From the front page for the Gainesville Daily Register, Texas, August 13, 1945.

[icedsodapop]

Literally! 226,000 civillians died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and as of 2022, 118,935 hibakusha (explosion-affected people) are still alive today. The hibakusha are still being discriminated today when in comes to marriage and work prospects. But sure Chris, let's makes another film centering the dude who spearheaded the fucking project that created the hibakusha 😒🤷🏻‍♀️

[sakebytheriver]

I don't really know what to say about Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan's newest glorification of white violence, I truly don't have a strong opinion either way nor do I have much to say on the film other than I hope the movie itself is less about glorifying Oppenheimer as some American folk hero and more about the massacre and devestation caused by the bombs

And on a personal note, the Japanese side of my family literally came from a suburb of Hiroshima. Of course, my great grandfather left Hiroshima with his brother long before WWII started and he settled in Hawai'i while his brother settled in Salinas Valley CA, when the war broke out the Salinas Valley branch of our family was all sent to the internment camps and two of my great uncles who left Hawai'i for the mainland were also interned along with their spouses and children, the only reason my grandmother and her family weren't interned is because there were just too many Japanese in Hawai'i to intern them, they were 60% of the population, interning Hawaiian Japanese would have meant capsizing Hawai'i's economy, (it didn't stop them from making a few internment camps for influential Japanese community leaders in Hawai'i though). Before the bombs were dropped, a distant relative of mine, a second cousin twice removed or something like that, went back to Japan, they went back to Hiroshima, back to where my family first came from. They went home to family

And then the bombs dropped.

And for months upon months, my family thought they were dead. They were finally able to contact our family and say they were still alive. They got lucky and didn't die in the bombing, but their story is an outlier, and my family got really really lucky in that regard. Of course, I have no idea about the family we still had in Hiroshima before my great grandfather left, but there's no doubt in my mind that I lost family when those bombs dropped, there's no doubt in my mind that a piece of my family history was destroyed, there is not doubt in my mind that there is forever an indelible mark on my family for the rest of time all because the US wanted to test out their fancy new toy that they made their pet scientist Oppenheimer build

I don't care about Oppenheimer, I care about the family I will never get to know

[belleandre-belle]

In a few words, Madiba summed up the situation in the world very well ❤️🇿🇦❤️

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know, nothing gives quite as much perspective as to just how deeply invested the U.S.' relationship with Israel and how far we have to go than learning that the U.S. holding a shipment of bombs back, not even refusing to send it but putting it on pause in response to the planned invasion of Rafah, is considered a radical maneuver that hasn't been done since Reagan.

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

I should've posted this while Oppenheimer was trending to get more eyes on it.

But the bomb in Oppenheimer was tested in New Mexico and many people in the fallout zone developed rare types of cancer.

The New Mexico residents only learned about the Trinity Test after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The bomb's aftermath later caused rare forms of cancer for many of the 30,000 residents and their descendants in the area surrounding Trinity.

-fae

[theconcealedweapon]

Dropping the nuclear bombs in Japan was a massive act of terrorism.

And it's not "defending a Nazi ally" to point that out.

The Japanese military were a Nazi ally. The innocent civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including babies, were not.

Israel is a terrorist state. But I would never even consider nuking Israel as an acceptable response. That would only kill innocent civilians, not those actually responsible for the genocide.

If someone nuked a highly populated city in the United States in response to something Trump did, would you see it as justified? Or is it only justified when it happens in other countries to other people?

[maysshortmoviereviews]

Oppenheimer (2023)

🎬During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.

📝A truly magnificent film, based on the equally excellent book ('American Prometheus'). It's full of excellent cast and tells us about the Golden Age of Physics as well as the dark age of the bomb. A thought provoking film and Cillian Murphy is just phenomenal. I highly recommend that you watch this in the cinema.

[droneboi]

White people be like

[captain-price-unofficially]

Hiroshima after the explosion, August 1945