7 August, 2005

Who's blame to is the point or not - Hiroshima arguments

» BBC News | Memories vivid in Hiroshima park
6 August
By Chris Hogg

» BBC News | The men who bombed Hiroshima

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk said in an interview with BBC;

We turned to look back at Hiroshima and already there was a huge white cloud reaching up more than 42,000 feet. At the base you could see nothing but thick black dust and debris - it looked like a pot of hot oil down there.

Morris "Dick" Jepson;

Everyone's thoughts turned to what devastation there would have been down below - we all had that thought on our mind because we had seen what the bomb could do.

But it was the right thing to do.

Dr Harold Agnew;

What we did saved a lot of lives in the long run and I am proud to have been part of it.

There seems an idea that what America did saved many lived. If America didn't dropped the atomic bomb, Japan would have caused more victims. Therefore, he says he's "proud" of what they did. But I can never understand how he can say it. The atomic bomb saved a lot of lives in the long run? So the victims of Hiroshima don't matter? This remark is disgusting, indeed.

» BBC News | Hiroshima arguments rage 60 years on
3 August 2005
By Paul Reynolds

How could a president, or the others charged with responsibility for the decision, answer to the American people if... after the bloodbath of an invasion of Japan, it became known that a weapon sufficient to end the war had been available by midsummer and was not used?

This can be easy to understand if you're American. However, what I fear is that glorifying and justifying the Enola Gay's "achievement" lead to overshadowing the horror of atomic bombs.

Do they know what atomic bombs are?

What Japan should do is not to keep criticising America but to tell the story of the atomic holocaust. Seeing the increasing nuclear crisis, what can Japan do?

Here are two stories of suvivors.
» BBC News | Surviving Hiroshima: Keiko Ogura
» BBC News | Surviving Hiroshima: Yutaka Nakagawa

Eliminate nuclear weapons for the sake of the world peace.