Introduction to the Atomic Bombing on Hiroshima


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  1. Historical Reason

    (1)American traditional strategy
            History tells the truth that America is very clever.

    • When Russia was strong in 19th century, U.K. and U.S. helped Japan and lead Japan to fight Russia (Russo-Japanese War).
    • When Soviet Union became strong, U.K.(America) and France accepted Hitler to invade other countries (The appeasement policy).
      When Hitler said he wouldn’t fight Soviet Union, U.K.(America) and France fought Hitler.
    • When Japan became strong and invade China in 1930’s-1940’s, U.S. helped China and lead Japan to attack U.S. (Pearl Harbor).
    • When Iran became strong, U.S. helped Iraq.
    • When Iraq became strong, U.S. attacked Iraq. It does not matter if Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction.
      But it was neccesary for U.S. on the pretext of the attack that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction.

            It is same now that the United States gets profits by making two countries confront each other. When one of them became strong, U. S. supports the other.

    • It is China to threaten rule by the United States. Therefore, it is dangerous for the United States that China is tied to Japan. It is American profit to make Japan and China confront each other. And as China is going to be strong now, U.S. helps Japan this time. This policy will continue for a while.

    (2) Why did America drop Atomic Bombs to Japan?

    • William Oliver Stone Famous American film director says the facts in “Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States”(2012).
    • Explanation by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum ----“The United States believed that ending the war with an atomic bombing before the Soviet Union declared war on Japan would curb Soviet influence after the war.”
    • It’s easy.
      It’s quite clear.
    • American presidents have said U.S. had used A-bomb to decrease the war dead. That is of course a lie. You can say it’s the open secret.
      Because without A-bomb Japan would have surrendered to America. It was the problem of time.
      This lie is easy to be believed by the average American who cannot show even the location of Japan on a world map. American can thereby erase a sense of guilt.
    • Dead persons would have been less than when using A-bomb.
    • Japan would surrender even if U.S. dropped it on the sea and showed the power to the Japanese Government.
      If Japanese Government had not surrender in spite of dropping it on the sea and the United States had dropped A-bomb on Hiroshima after that, the American explanation would have been somewhat persuasive.
    • Truman ordered throwing down A-bomb on Japan before Potsdam Declaration. In short, he was dying to use it.

    Please see below.
    Because unlike Korean and Chinese Japanese will not demand compensation to the U.S. even if the U.S. says the truth, the U.S. can speak the truth in peace. If the U.S. does so, the foggy feeling of the history will be broken off and you will feel fine.
    04 Feb 45 -　11 Feb 45　　Yalta Conference

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    U.S. asked Soviet Union to declare war against Japan and fight Japan.
    U.S. promised to give Soviet Union South Sakhalin, Chishima islands and three votes in the United Nations, etc.
    Because U.S. did not have A-bomb yet and U.S. needed Soviet Union’s help to put an end to the war.
    (After the war the Soviet Union owned south Sakhalin and the Chishima Islands as promised, and only the Soviet Union got three (including Ukraine and Belarus) votes in the United Nations.)
    12 April 45

    President Roosevelt died. Vice President Truman became the President.
    17 Jul 45 -
    02 Aug 45
    Potsdam Conference
    President Harry S. Truman
    Potsdam Conference by America, UK and Soviet Union.
    21 Jul 45　

    The president got the report that A-bomb had got built. U.S. changed its mind. U.S. did not need Soviet Union’s help any more as before.
    24 Jul 45

    The president ordered throwing down A-bomb on Japan without waiting for the second test.
    26 Jul 45　　Potsdam Proclamation
    Potsdam Proclamation to Japan. After the announcement of the Proclamation, Truman reported that to Soviet Union. That means ignoring the Soviet Union.
    They didn’t say anything about A-bomb and did the last announcement. And no reply of Japan.
    The Suzuki Cabinet thought that it was the same as “Cairo Declaration” and he said “it has no special value and we ignore that”.
    29 Jul 45

    Soviet Union asked U.S. and UK to give a formal request document for Soviet Union to fight Japan according to the promise.
    31 Jul 45

    U.S. did an ambiguous reply to Soviet Union .
    06 Aug 45

    A-bomb on Hiroshima
    U.S. tried to put an end to the war without Soviet Union’s help and to rule Japan and other Asian area before Soviet Union invaded Manchuria, Korea, Japan and so on.
    U.S. showed the Soviet Union that     if the Soviet Union disobeyed America, U.S. would drop A-bombs to the Soviet Union too. Also it meant the human experiments.
    (U.S. tried an uranium atom bomb.)
    08 Aug 45

    Soviet Union declared war against Japan.
    Soviet Union thought the war was going to be over because of A-bomb.
    2 days after Hiroshima bombing, Soviet Union invaded Manchuria, Korea and Japan in a hurry before war was over and U.S. came there.
    09 Aug 45

    A-bomb on Nagasaki

    (U.S. tried a Plutonium atom bomb.)
    15 Aug 45
    War was over.

    Japan accepted Potsdam Proclamation. Japan was occupied by America
    Japan was not devided by U.S. and Soviet Union because of A-bomb.

  2. Effects

    These are from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

    Radiation and Genetic Effects

    After the A-bombing, it was feared that survivors
    would be affected genetically. At this point, a variety of studies have
    failed to find any harmful effects of radiation in the survivors’
    descendants. However, continued long-term observations and reserch will
    be required.

    The center of the city.

    Nothing is left standing except ferroconcrete
    buildings. The following verse is from “Flower of Summer” (Natsu no
    Hana), a collection of short stories by Tamiki Hara (1905-1951), writer
    and A-bomb survivor.

    This is a human being?
    Look how the atom bomb changed it.
    Flesh swells fearfully.
    All men and women lake one shape.
    The voice that trickles from swollen lips on the festering,
    charred-black face whispers the thin words,
    “Please help me.”
    This, this is a human being.
    This is the face of a human being.
    Human Shadow Etched in Stone

    Human Shadow Etched in Stone

    A person sitting on the bank
    steps waiting for it to open was
    exposed to the flash from the atomic bomb explosion. Receiving the rays
    directly from the front, the victim undoubtedly died on the spot from
    massive burns. The surface of the surrounding stone steps was turned
    whitish by the intense heat rays. The place where the person was
    sitting remained dark like a shadow.

    Raging flames and corpses scattered everywhere

    Kenichi Nakano
    (47 at the time of the bombing, 76 when he drew this picture)

    Explanation in picture

    Whole city a sea of fire. Hell. Hell on Earth

    A girl clung to her mother who was barely breathing because of injuries over her whole body.

    Kazuo Matsumuro
    (32 at the time of the bombing, 61 when he drew this picture)

    Explanation in picture

    It was probably not a coincidence that the mother was critically
    wounded while her daughter was virtually unscratched. The mother was
    barely breathing. Several hours later, the mother was piled onto a
    truck like a piece of trash to be taken for cremation. The child was
    taken somewhere by someone who would take care of her. Thus, they
    parted forever. If the daughter lived, she would be 30 now. How would
    she know anything of her mother or her relatives?

    The burned skin on both of this man’s arms was peeling and hanging.

    Akira Onogi
    (15 at the time of the bombing, 45 when he drew this picture)

    Explanation in picture

    After finally managing to crawl out of our collapsed house, I saw our next-door neighbor for the first time.
    The skin on both arms had peeled off and hung from his fingernails. He was desperately looking for his child. Both he and the child died.

    As I fearfully crossed the railroad bridge, I saw red, blue, green, and purple corpses swollen three or four times floating under it.

    Toshiko Kihara
    Age 17 at time of bombing, 47 at time of drawing

    A line of victims injured over their whole bodies, fleeing to the suburbs

    Masato Yamashita
    (20 at the time of the bombing, 50 when he drew this picture)

    Explanation in picture

    A line of victims in the Ozu vicinity

    A soldier about to die.

    This serviceman survived the war, but fell a victim
    to the A-bomb inside a wooden house (about 1km from the hypocenter).
    Bleeding from the skin, red specks, stomatitis and hair epilation were
    observed. The soldier died two hours after this photograph was taken.
    (Photo by Gonichi Kimura)

    Bone marrow displaying acute leukemia

    Provided by the Hiroshima Red Cross and Atomic-bomb
    Survivors Hospital
    1,700m from the hypocenter
    Hiratsuka-cho
    A 9-year-old girl exposed in a wooden house received no burns or other
    injuries. She grew up strong and healthy. In June 1959, about fourteen
    years after the bombing, she suddenly experienced fatigue, dizziness,
    bleeding from gums, and other symptoms. Her symptoms persisted, and she
    was hospitalized. In late June the following year, her legs began
    swelling without subsiding, eventually to the point of bleeding. She
    died in late July.

    Leukemia

    Leukemia is cancer of the blood. The white blood
    cells multiply wildly without fully maturing. Red blood cells and
    platelets are reduced, leading to anemia. The white blood cells
    increase in number but lose normal functioning, which lowers resistance
    to infection. The incidence of leukemia was greatest 7 to 8 years after
    the bombing. The younger the survivor was at the time of exposure, the
    earlier was the onset of leukemia.

    Malignant tumors (Cancer)

    Cancers began to increase about 1960. Some cancers for which a
    correspondence has been confirmed between distance from the incidence
    are: myeloma, ovary cancer, urinary tract cancer, tbreast cancer, colon
    cancer, lung cancer, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer.
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