Hiroshima Anniversary

[Navillus04]

Whats even more devastating to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the fact that the half lifes of the two main uranium isotopes, uranium 235 and uranium 238 are 713000000 and 4500000000 years respectively. As far as i am aware, the Little Boy bomb was composed of Uranium 235, which means that Hiroshima will be a radioactive and an inhospitable environment for the next billion or so odd years, thats if the planet survives that long, seeing as the sun is going to extinguish and die well before that, which is kinda ironic seeing as the same type of fusion and fission reactions that took place with the Little Boy Bomb are akin to what goes on in the sun every second.

If that wasnt bad enough, good old Uranium 235 is a very potent absorber of neutrons, which over time will decay and produce Plutonium, which im sure the Japanese are very pleased about.

Seeing as Uranium 235 emits gamma radiation as well as alpha and beta particles, the effects on future generations will be untold. All animal and plant life will have mutated genes, same can be said for humans. The teratogenic and mutagenic effects of the gamma radiation will mean that Hiroshima and Nagasaki will forever be blighted by every type of cancer imaginable, genetic defects, birth defects, you name it, it will happen and is happening.

Just think of what could happen if Pakistan and India declare nuclear war on each other, then there's Iran, North Korea, fanatical Islamic Jihadists, Syria and they are just the ones we are aware of

Closer to home, Sellafield in Cumbria in the UK. And there are plenty more nuclear power stations going to be built in the UK over the next 25 years, Thank you Tony Blair

Makes for pleasant reading dont it?

[Westsidex]

Being the intellectual dregs that most of you are it will have probably escaped your collective notice that today is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. Of the 9 countries that have (or are believed to have) nuclear weapons, only one country (the United States) has ever used such a weapon of mass destruction on another nation.

At 0815 on this day 65 years ago, the American B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" dropped an atomic bomb (called "Little Boy") from 32,000 feet above Hiroshima, a city with approximately 350,000 inhabitants. The bomb took 43 seconds to fall to 2,000 feet above the ground, its point of fission, at which point it detonated in a type of explosion called an airburst.

Around 75,000 people were incinerated within 3 seconds of the blast. Another 70,000 were burned and died in the ruins of thirst in the chaos of the fallout. The flash heat of the radiation burned shadows onto walls, fused clothes to skin, and charred and melted flesh so that it ran like water. The shockwave demolished everything within a radius of 12 square kilometers.

President Truman rationalised this act of genocide by concluding that Operation Downfall (the proposed Allied invasion of Japan) would be so costly to human life that it was better to use the atom bomb to force Japan to surrender.





In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear bomb in history, above the Kola Peninsula. The fireball from this weapon from ranged from ground level to 35,000 feet. The shockwave caused earth tremours 620 miles away, and the shockwave passed around the Earth three times. The mushroom cloud was 40 miles high, stretching up into the Earth's mesosphere. Everything within 35 square kilometers of its detonation was reduced to ashes.

Truman said over 1 million Americans would have died in an invasion of Japan or some fig like that. He did have a point although it didnt justify the extremity of an Atomic bomb. It makes you wonder did even the Americans realise how much of an impact the aftermath of the blast would have and dont forget the other one on Nagasaki.

Westside.

[aml]

Truman said over 1 million Americans would have died in an invasion of Japan or some fig like that. He did have a point although it didnt justify the extremity of an Atomic bomb. It makes you wonder did even the Americans realise how much of an impact the aftermath of the blast would have and dont forget the other one on Nagasaki.

Westside.

Most of the ppl murdered(which they were) were ordinary ppl going about their daily lives the only ones that were lucky were the ones kills instantly,the others had to suffer for hours and days....

[CrackShotJack]

Being the intellectual dregs that most of you are it will have probably escaped your collective notice that today is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. Of the 9 countries that have (or are believed to have) nuclear weapons, only one country (the United States) has ever used such a weapon of mass destruction on another nation.

At 0815 on this day 65 years ago, the American B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" dropped an atomic bomb (called "Little Boy") from 32,000 feet above Hiroshima, a city with approximately 350,000 inhabitants. The bomb took 43 seconds to fall to 2,000 feet above the ground, its point of fission, at which point it detonated in a type of explosion called an airburst.

Around 75,000 people were incinerated within 3 seconds of the blast. Another 70,000 were burned and died in the ruins of thirst in the chaos of the fallout. The flash heat of the radiation burned shadows onto walls, fused clothes to skin, and charred and melted flesh so that it ran like water. The shockwave demolished everything within a radius of 12 square kilometers.

President Truman rationalised this act of genocide by concluding that Operation Downfall (the proposed Allied invasion of Japan) would be so costly to human life that it was better to use the atom bomb to force Japan to surrender.





In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear bomb in history, above the Kola Peninsula. The fireball from this weapon from ranged from ground level to 35,000 feet. The shockwave caused earth tremours 620 miles away, and the shockwave passed around the Earth three times. The mushroom cloud was 40 miles high, stretching up into the Earth's mesosphere. Everything within 35 square kilometers of its detonation was reduced to ashes.

What's your point buddy? I am an american and when we delivered that knockout punch at least the little commie fuckers had enough balls to know when they were defeated. America are the world's police force. This is just a fact.

[Doozer]

What's your point buddy? I am an american and when we delivered that knockout punch at least the little commie fuckers had enough balls to know when they were defeated. America are the world's police force. This is just a fact.

One nobdoy asked for. How can it police the whole world when it is only protecting its own interests

[CrackShotJack]

One nobdoy asked for. How can it police the whole world when it is only protecting its own interests

I see your point, but at the same time, if it wasn't for us policing the word this forum would probably be in German right now.

[Doozer]

I see your point, but at the same time, if it wasn't for us policing the word this forum would probably be in German right now.

Ha ha. Oh mighty America please look after the rest of teh world so the baddies dont get us. Which ones are teh baddies ?
Whichever ones wont give us what we want?
Tell me this why are teh US 'policing' Iraq and Afgahnistan when there are so many African countries taht could use their help?

[CrackShotJack]

Ha ha. Oh mighty America please look after the rest of teh world so the baddies dont get us. Which ones are teh baddies ?
Whichever ones wont give us what we want?
Tell me this why are teh US 'policing' Iraq and Afgahnistan when there are so many African countries taht could use their help?

We can only police one continent at a time, but I would like to thank you personally for letting us use Shannon airport, you're in this as much as we are, buddy