LaForge: U.S. Atomic Bombings Didn’t Save Lives or End the War

LaForge: U.S. atomic bombings didn’t save lives or end the war

Aug. 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (10,000 times hotter than the surface of…

U.S. atomic bombings didn’t save lives or end the war - Newton Kansan

August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun) over the city. Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb reported, “People exposed within half a mile of the … fireball were seared to bundles of smoking black char in a fraction of a s…

War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza

This week marks 80 years since the United States used its nuclear weapons against the civilian population of Japan in August 1945. Prior to that, the U.S. began the mass firebombing of Japanese citizens. On the night of March 9, U.S. bombers, “dropped 1,665 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo, unleashing a firestorm that incinerated a quarter of the city and killed 85,000 people. Over the next four months, the raids continued and, “razed almost ev…

U.S. atomic bombings didn’t save lives or end the war

By John LaForge August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun) over the city. Richard Rhodes’ The Making of the Atomic Bomb reported, “People exposed within half a mile of the … fireball were seared to bundles of smoking black char in a…