Philosophy
Little Boy [foreground] and Fat Man [background]
An anniversary in a way of the beginning of nuclear weaponry development and politics--the assertion of world power and dominance. The debate of the use of nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities is still current and probably will be for some time. It is a complex issue of politics and a nation's desire to curtail one nation's imperialism and the desire to end armed combat. This date of the deployment of Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 claimed an estimated 70,000 to 130,000 immediate loss of indiscriminate life and three days later the deployment of Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945 claimed an estimated 45,000 immediate loss of indiscriminate life. Numerical estimates of deaths after the bombings is lacking but burns, radiation effects, and genetic mutations certainly were manifest.
Little Boy
Fat Man
- Yukiya Amano...international Atomic Energy Agency
"Nuclear watchdog has personal stake in his job" International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano is haunted by the bombings that killed tens of thousands of his fellow Japanese by Borzou Daragahi June 30th, 2010 Los Angeles Times He was born...
- Deceased--morris 'dick' Jeppson
Morris 'Dick' Jeppson June 23rd, 1922 to March 30th, 2010 "Morris 'Dick' Jeppson dies at 87; weapons specialist armed the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima" On Aug. 6, 1945, Jeppson and another man armed the bomb called 'Little Boy'...
- Deceased--tsutomu Yamaguchi
Tsutomu Yamaguchi March 16th, 1916 to January 4th, 2010 "Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi dies at 93" Yamaguchi was the only person officially recognized as having survived both atomic bombings. He was injured in the first blast and...
- July And August Anniversaries...atomic Weapons
Anniversaries are arriving soon: July 16th, 1945 marks the first atomic bomb tested at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in a remote section of desert near Los Alamos, New Mexico and August 6th, 1945 marks the atom bomb detonated over Hiroshima....
- "nuclear Secrets Spread Around The Globe"--slide Show
Yuliy Khariton, director of the Soviet A-bomb project from its inception in 1945 through 1992, sitting next to RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb. Internally, it was an exact copy of the American Fat Man. A slide show presentation from The New York...
Philosophy
Little Boy and Fat Man--an anniversary
Little Boy [foreground] and Fat Man [background]An anniversary in a way of the beginning of nuclear weaponry development and politics--the assertion of world power and dominance. The debate of the use of nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities is still current and probably will be for some time. It is a complex issue of politics and a nation's desire to curtail one nation's imperialism and the desire to end armed combat. This date of the deployment of Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 claimed an estimated 70,000 to 130,000 immediate loss of indiscriminate life and three days later the deployment of Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945 claimed an estimated 45,000 immediate loss of indiscriminate life. Numerical estimates of deaths after the bombings is lacking but burns, radiation effects, and genetic mutations certainly were manifest.
Little Boy
Fat Man
- Yukiya Amano...international Atomic Energy Agency
"Nuclear watchdog has personal stake in his job" International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano is haunted by the bombings that killed tens of thousands of his fellow Japanese by Borzou Daragahi June 30th, 2010 Los Angeles Times He was born...
- Deceased--morris 'dick' Jeppson
Morris 'Dick' Jeppson June 23rd, 1922 to March 30th, 2010 "Morris 'Dick' Jeppson dies at 87; weapons specialist armed the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima" On Aug. 6, 1945, Jeppson and another man armed the bomb called 'Little Boy'...
- Deceased--tsutomu Yamaguchi
Tsutomu Yamaguchi March 16th, 1916 to January 4th, 2010 "Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi dies at 93" Yamaguchi was the only person officially recognized as having survived both atomic bombings. He was injured in the first blast and...
- July And August Anniversaries...atomic Weapons
Anniversaries are arriving soon: July 16th, 1945 marks the first atomic bomb tested at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in a remote section of desert near Los Alamos, New Mexico and August 6th, 1945 marks the atom bomb detonated over Hiroshima....
- "nuclear Secrets Spread Around The Globe"--slide Show
Yuliy Khariton, director of the Soviet A-bomb project from its inception in 1945 through 1992, sitting next to RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic bomb. Internally, it was an exact copy of the American Fat Man. A slide show presentation from The New York...