Fat Man
Today, 9 August 2004, marks the 59th anniversary of the detonation of an atomic bomb dropped from B-29 Bock's Car over Nagasakai, Japan.
Not everyone realizes that Nagasaki was also destroyed by a single bomb, most of the infamy going to Hiroshima as the first real city destroyed by an atomic blast.
What almost no one knows is that the actual intended target of the blast, the primary target, was a city called Kokura. The run on the primary target was called off due to cloud cover, and the secondary target, Nagasaki, was instead chosen.
Nothing big here; I'm not going to start any argument over the use of nuclear weapons, however limited or not, but…
Just imagine, you and 600 000 of your friends, all literally suspended on the edge of Atropos' knife, living the rest of your lives after you had been marked for extermination, just because of one overcast day.
A single cloudy day.
Not everyone realizes that Nagasaki was also destroyed by a single bomb, most of the infamy going to Hiroshima as the first real city destroyed by an atomic blast.
What almost no one knows is that the actual intended target of the blast, the primary target, was a city called Kokura. The run on the primary target was called off due to cloud cover, and the secondary target, Nagasaki, was instead chosen.
Nothing big here; I'm not going to start any argument over the use of nuclear weapons, however limited or not, but…
Just imagine, you and 600 000 of your friends, all literally suspended on the edge of Atropos' knife, living the rest of your lives after you had been marked for extermination, just because of one overcast day.
A single cloudy day.
posted by J. E Jansen at 9.8.04
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