Why is the world never the same since August 6, 1945?”
Most Americans are unaware that the war with Japan would have ended soon without the devastating atomic bombs. American intelligence was fully aware of Japan’s desperate search for ways to honorably surrender weeks before the order was given for the mass slaughter of not only 80,000 innocent Japanese civilians but also 12 American Navy pilots incinerated in a Hiroshima jail: I was a young child when America dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but I felt its enormous emotional impact. I literally shuddered when I imagined the devastating death toll and somehow innately knew that the world would never be the same again. I also, as an American, felt the gnawing sense of collective guilt that we, as a country, had a responsibility to at least warn the Japanese before inflicting such catastrophic damage. There are many myths about the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 and columnist Gary G. Kohls, MD performs a valuable service in listing the myths and
Nuclear bomb victim in Hiroshima hospital Most Americans are unaware that the war with Japan would have ended soon without the devastating atomic bombs. American intelligence was fully aware of Japan’s desperate search for ways to honorably surrender weeks before the order was given for the mass slaughter of not only 80,000 innocent Japanese civilians but also 12 American Navy pilots incinerated in a Hiroshima jail: I was a young child when America dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but I felt its enormous emotional impact. I literally shuddered when I imagined the devastating death toll and somehow innately knew that the world would never be the same again. I also, as an American, felt the gnawing sense of collective guilt that we, as a country, had a responsibility to at least warn the Japanese before inflicting such catastrophic damage. There are many myths about the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 and columnist Gary G. Kohls, MD performs a
On August 6, 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress from the 393rd bomber squadron of the US Air Force, named “Enola Gay” after colonel Paul Tibbet’s, pilot of the aircraft, mother, took off from Tinian base in Western Pacific. At 8:15 am local time Tipped dropped the bomb, dubbed “Little Boy”, over the unaware population of the Japanese city. All buildings in a range of 800 meters were destroyed immediately. About 100,000 people died in the explosion, while tenths of thousand more were killed in the following days, months and years due to the consequences of exposition to radiations. Three days later was the turn of the city of Nagasaki. On August 15 Japan surrendered, ending the war. From that day 54 years ago the world has never been the same. The cold war based on the fear caused by the effects of those, first and unique, nuclear attacks as sufficient deterrent to keep the entire global balance, also in difficult crisis periods.
