#atomic-bomb

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E17 Why Have There Been So Many UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Facilities?

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U.S. Military Film on the Medical Effects of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [Warning: Contains Blood and Other Shocking Things]

Suppressed U.S. Military Film on the Medical Effects of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki filmed by an Army Air Force squad in 1946.

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Giant Atomic Bomb - Royal Toy Mfg by Atomic Scout on Flickr.

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To justify Hiroshima with the assertion that Germany or Japan would have acted similarly is to betray the Just War tradition entirely. It means basing our moral standards on the fickle depravity of our earthly enemy, rather than the North Star of God's goodness. And this is precisely what happened in World War II, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki forming a tragic coda to the escalating practice of civilian bombing initiated by the Nazis.

Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

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[T]he use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. . . . [I]n being the first to use it, we . . . adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

William D. Leahy

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Google Earthを活用して広島原爆の実態を伝えるデジタルアーカイブ / the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive powered by GoogleEarth

- ビジュアライゼーションデータのとても有益な利用法だと思う。今回の大震災でGoogleが映像情報を収集するプロジェクトを組んでいたように、後世のために今できるテクノロジで誰もが参加できることってたくさんあると思うんだよな。パソコンも人間も人生も社会も世界も、はい！リセットで…、はい！再インストールで…、という訳にはいかない。 (via デザイン思考)

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We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer