Think of the same Japan without the carnage. Japan was in the...

Think of the same Japan without the carnage. Japan was in the process of surrendering and had already commenced discussions with the US to achieve that purpose. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been subject to many enquiries as to the necessity but such an act against a civilian population is morally indefensible.

Innocent children, women and men instantly vaporized. An argument can be made that perhaps they were the lucky ones. Some lottery. The countless that suffered. A memory ...

https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/200708230006.html






Thermal Radiation Heat Burns
This boy was exposed to thermal radiation approximately one mile from the Nagasaki hypocenter. Photograph by U.S. Army, November 1945.

" ... Near the hypocenter the temperature of 6,000 degrees centigrade incinerates the body, blisters tile surfaces and instantly ignites flammable objects. At distances of about three kilometers the skin is charred, but at distances closer to the hypocenter, internal tissues are injured as if they are roasted and death occurs immediately. As thermal radiation and the penetrating nuclear radiation of gamma rays and neutrons act upon the body simultaneously, the combined effects were lethal for those out in the open within 1,500 meters of the hypocenter, even for those who were not injured by the trauma.

The blast waves caused injury not only because of their tremendous force that buckled concrete walls like the force of an earthquake at close distances from the hypocenter, but in addition they created a blast wind of hurricane speed that flung bodies off the ground several meters, that turned loose objects into flying missiles and the shattered glass fragments of varying size into flying blades cutting or penetrating the body. Furthermore, the skin that just seconds before was scorched by the thermal radiation was ripped off leaving strips of skin hanging from the body and exposing bleeding skin surfaces. The blast wind left clothing in tatters while others were completely naked.

At the Medical School hospital it was often noted that individuals without burns or trauma injury died, some instantly, slumping at their workplace, while others died in the next day or two after the bombing and solely from what was later determined to be radiation effect on the brain, "brain death." ..."

You wish that on others?