| Posted by nightbird |
7/19/2005 6:20 PM | remove |
memorial to what?
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| Posted by Kuroneko |
7/23/2005 4:12 PM | remove |
Are you:
a) trying to make a joke?
b) attending the US school system?
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| Posted by ex-goose-villager |
7/24/2005 3:26 AM | remove |
I suspect, more than likely, the answer is: b)
As soon as I saw the dome superstructure, I recognized this as the epicentre of the atomic blast. Don't be too hard on her, though, I'm not sure how many Canadians would have picked up on this either--although the name f the city should have been a give-away.
Perhaps it's a generational thing--it so often appears that the younger generation views what happened during the war as ancient history, hardly worthy of their attention.
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| Posted by JavaDog |
7/25/2005 8:13 PM | remove |
Wow, it is really sad that people forget things like this so soon. Great gallery!
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| Posted by scribble |
7/26/2005 2:52 AM | remove |
In Toronto, we have a Peace Garden at our City Hall that mimics a-bombed structure. It gives one pause to contemplate what can only be described by using the standard definition as a terrorist act on an unprecedented scale...
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| Posted by IIVQ |
8/6/2005 4:38 PM | remove |
I off course know that "hiroshima" means the town where the a-bomb fell (and that in nagasaki, they like bukkake), but I also know that currently it's a thriving city so it could've been a memorial for everything. Also, how did you recognize this as the blast epicentre?
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| Posted by ex-goose-villager |
8/7/2005 2:05 AM | remove |
The domed superstructure is a world-famous photo dating from just after the war; as soon as I saw the dome, I recognized it immediately.
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| Posted by rainman8889 |
8/9/2005 1:16 AM | remove |
I recognized it too. I'm quite passionate about history and learn as much as I can. Also, Nagasaki was the second city that had an atomic bomb (plutonium) dropped on it.
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| Posted by maZe |
12/3/2005 1:45 AM | remove |
"Don't be too hard on her, though, I'm not sure how many Canadians would have picked up on this either". Gees. I'm offended. That's one of the most ridiculous comment I've seen since "memorial to what?". Lots of Canucks know well what happened there. A vast majority do. Don't forget this extremely sad even touched Canada in many ways. Many asian-canadians were interned in camps during the war.
This, for me, is exactly like saying "Auswitz... what's that?". Come on. Doesn't matter where you're from. It's part of world history. Nothing to do with Canada.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
12/11/2005 11:49 PM | remove |
I agree, it's nothing to do with Canada - the US dropped the bomb. IIRC!!
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
12/11/2005 11:52 PM | remove |
PS: If this building truly was the epicentre? I doubt there would be anything left but glass!
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| Posted by maZe |
12/11/2005 11:54 PM | remove |
Thing is, epicenter was easy to find. It was where NOTHING was left except radioactivity. Building would not be standing if it was epicenter and the impact of the nuclear blast would have turned it into glass.
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| Posted by gasp_its_him |
6/4/2006 12:46 PM | remove |
and to think that little the blob only had a efficiency of about 1.5 percent
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| Posted by gasp_its_him |
6/4/2006 1:31 PM | remove |
bomb not blob
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| Posted by Samurai |
6/7/2006 6:51 PM | remove |
actually, there was no real crater left... it was an airburst.
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| Posted by Samurai |
6/7/2006 6:56 PM | remove |
both devices dropped on Japan were rated at about 20kilotons apiece. Fat Man was an airburst where as Little Boy was a ground level detonation. Fat Man utilized uranium for critical mass where as Little Boy used plutonium.
If you want to ponder the philosophical aspects of dropping the devices on Japan, consider that had the US and allies invaded Japan, the loss of life on both sides would've been staggering, death tolls in the millions. It was Trumans' decision to drop the bombs that may have actually saved more lives than were taken. That's no comfort of course to the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nor should it be an excuse. Would history consider the dropping of these weapons on these cities an act of terror? No more so than the surprise attack of 7 December 1941.
regardless, these place is a memorial of the end of one age and the beginning of a far more dangerous one and should be approached with utmost sincerity and respect.
that's just my opinion.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
6/12/2006 11:32 AM | remove |
all well said and it needs to be remembered that if we learned anything by it it is that nuclear war is a lose lose situation. Just look at chernobyl and try to imagine it 100 times worse happening in all kinds of places simultaneously.
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| Posted by Scaggs |
9/11/2006 12:40 AM | remove |
Wow, that bitch is stupid. And she was made a moderator?
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| Posted by MutantMandias |
9/11/2006 1:25 AM | remove |
Samurai is not a moderator.
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| Posted by Samurai |
9/11/2006 8:08 AM | remove |
funny, fucker... real funny.
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| Posted by Blackbird |
8/15/2007 1:25 AM | remove |
In Canada we don't talk about what happend and why so much as it happened and that it was evil. No mention of the staggering lose of life if such force was not used, and no mention of what happened afterwards at ground zero.
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| Posted by cjb |
10/28/2007 9:33 AM | remove |
Wow no offense nightbird, but that was really a stupid comment!! Go back to your primary school history course!
2+2=3 ?
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| Posted by Sarnia Boy |
3/14/2008 4:03 AM | remove |
HEY! i am canadian and a member of the younger gen. at only 15 i know what hiroshima was and the atrocity that took place, please stop stereotyping us!
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| Posted by Blackbird |
3/15/2008 3:22 PM | remove |
I too am Canadian and only one year older than you. I have only been told that The Bomb was evil, never about the aftermath or the reasons for its use.
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| Posted by MutantMandias |
3/15/2008 5:08 PM | remove |
Well, that's just fabulous.
Never occurred to you to have a thought about it on your own?
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| Posted by Blackbird |
3/15/2008 8:47 PM | remove |
I have but I'm just a little pissed off that the Canadian school system teaches "sunshine and roses" instead of the solid facts (if the subject is Canada in a war or just war in general).
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| Posted by MutantMandias |
3/16/2008 1:55 AM | remove |
Every country teaches with a slant, usually in favor of itself.
When I was taking some advanced French course years and years ago, we studied French history from French books. I was surprised to see that they treated Napoleon as a hero, while I had always heard references to him as being in the same class as Hitler.
Granted I hadn't really studied Napoleon before then, so no one had ever specifically tried to indoctrinate me into thinking that he was some kind of antichrist (which I have certainly heard), but it was eye opening to see such a different perspective from French texts.
It made me really evaluate all of the facts and form my own conclusions.
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| Posted by Blackbird |
3/16/2008 1:59 AM | remove |
Exactly, decide how you view history and events only after looking at many different perspectives to get a more general veiw.
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| Posted by MutantMandias |
3/16/2008 2:02 AM | remove |
Damn straight.
So.... this thing is a memorial to what?
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| Posted by Samurai |
5/23/2008 6:08 AM | remove |
the inevitability of human self-destruction, Mandias.
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| Posted by MutantMandias |
5/23/2008 1:42 PM | remove |
I thought that was what YOU represented, Sam.
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| Posted by Kuroneko |
10/10/2008 9:53 AM | remove |
As you Americans go to vote next month, remember this place, and ask yourself the question - where is my vote going. We cannot allow this to happen again.
(And if you have to ask the 'who', there is no hope for you.)
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| Posted by BOX |
10/14/2008 9:11 AM | remove |
I don't recall either side wanting to bomb japan again. ;)
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| Posted by Samurai |
10/27/2008 3:47 PM | remove |
I don't think that was what 'Neko was getting at, box... i think what he meant was, please don't elect any other idiotic cowboy mentality types please.
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| Posted by Kuroneko |
10/28/2008 1:07 PM | remove |
> I don't think that was what 'Neko was getting at
It wasn't, and you're correct. But, damn that was funny though.
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| Posted by MutantMandias |
10/28/2008 2:46 PM | remove |
You ARE all Christian over there, right?
And there ain't no gays?
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| Posted by jeepdave |
8/7/2010 1:14 PM | remove |
Yeah, seems that election advice was a fail. Good job. lol
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