Eighty Years Ago Today Hundreds of Thousands Disappear in a Light Second
Eighty years ago the Enola Gay dropped a single bomb over the city of Hiroshima unleashing a force never before seen, chabged the world forever.
We speak about the nuclear bomb, but somehow lose sight of the fact that it was used to allegedly end a war. Now we have multiple wars at once, and there is fear of the use of a "tactical" weapon. We need to find a way to stop himans from kiling each other!
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If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War" on Netflix.
They reveal a LOT of new revelations on the history of the nuclear bomb.
I'm sure you know Truman was thrust into the drivers seat on this after FDR died. He went along with the military on allowing the use of the bomb on Japan. There was some arguments on what sites they would strike, apparently Kyoto was considered but discarded because it was considered a cultural center.
According to the documentary, after Truman saw the photos of the destruction, he flipped and was shocked at the level of devastation.
He made a point of issuing an Executive order that no one was to use these weapons again without his express, written permission to do so.
@SumKindaMunster there were geological trains those two cities were chosen, they were thought to be the locations of greater population exposures to a bomb's effects dropped from the specific height chosen.
