Nagasaki
Sixty-six years ago today the face of civilization was changed forever, when a nuclear bomb almost incinerated the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing tens of thousands of people.
By the end of the decade that bomb – and another bomb dropped on nearby Nagasaki – had claimed the lives of half a million people.
This year on Hiroshima Day, 6 August 2011, Australian Red Cross begins a campaign to re-ignite the push for a ban on the use of nuclear weapons – calling on young Australians from all walks of life to finish what their parents started.
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The image of a child surrendering to be tested for radiation poisoning in Japan is heartbreaking.
It reminds me of the iconic picture of Kim Phuc, running naked along the road after being burned in a napalm attack.
In 1972, that picture brought home the horrors of the Vietnam War.
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Francesco says:
From BEIR VII page. 268“The use of data on psreons exposed at low doses and low dose rates merits special mention. Of these studies, the most promising for quantitative risk assessment are the studies of nuclear workers who have been monitored for radiation exposure through the use of personal dosimeters.… Read more »
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Jason Todd says:
Fablish, I am happy to engage the solar and wind debate, and both solar panel and wind (as well as geothermal and wave) technology is coming along, but it isn’t there yet. They are woefully inefficient as well as being expensive. Not to mention that their construction of solar panels… Read more »
American forces dropped a bomb on Nagaski, Japan today in 1945, killing approximately 74, 000 people and destorying 30 per cent of the city itself.
Newsweek has a very moving piece written by a daughter of one the survivors of the blast, that you can find here.
And it’s Monday, so what is on your mind?
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TheRealDave says:
@Steve by that rationale D-Day as an invasion of German soil Read more »
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Davo says:
Because it is a reflection of our own fears. I suppose the belief is that we are more likely to suffer from a nuclear attack than be hacked to death during a period of religious unrest. Could all change if enough people vote for the Mad Monk, of course. Read more »
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