Nagasaki Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
Leaders from Nagasaki are urging the world to ban nuclear weapons, which is a nice thought that will not happen anytime soon:
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The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.
At the event at Nagasaki Peace Park, scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Tomihisa Taue read a peace declaration in which he raised concern that nuclear states had in recent years retreated from disarmament efforts.
Instead, they are upgrading and miniaturizing nuclear weapons for easier use, he said. Taue singled out the U.S. and Russia for increasing risks by scrapping the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Military Times
You can read more at the link, but it seems to me that Mayor Taue should be more worried about nearby nuclear threat North Korea than Russia and the U.S.
Anyway this is the time of the year to renew the debate on whether the U.S. should have used the bomb or not during World War II.
Should have dropped it on Beijing Boy’s ancestors too.
The fact that they STILL act like us dropping the atomic bombs was a “dastardly, unprovoked attack” (to borrow from FDR’s speech on 8 December 1941) shows they are not people worth taking seriously.
In fact, there would likely have been as many as nine million additional Japanese dead if not for the A-Bombs. Bill Whittle talks about that very well:
www dot YouTube dot com/watch?v=ylMbvf3sn_g
And both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets. They had factories producing war materiel. The people baking rice-cakes fed the factory workers who helped their soldiers, sailors, and airmen kill Allied troops.
Ask the people of Nanjing how sorry we should feel for the Japanese war dead.
en dot Wikipedia dot org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
But for me, the story of Red Parks is most instructive. At the Battle of Midway, ‘Red Parks led his division’s obsolete F2A-3 Buffaloes against the incoming raiders, and was immediately jumped by the Zero escort. Another officer, who watched the battle from the ground, said the Buffaloes “looked like they were tied to a string while the Zeros made passes at them.” Parks, one of the first victims, bailed out of his burning aircraft. His parachute opened, but as he dangled from the shroud lines, a Zero pilot strafed him all the way down, and continued to fire even as his body landed on a reef.</strong'
Sorry about that last typo…
Congratulations, Nagasaki!
Celebrating 75 years of Fùcked Around, Found Out.
May the lessons learned bring you at least another 75 years of nuclear detonation-free peace and prosperity.