Post by Hnefahogg on Aug 7, 2020 11:24:58 GMT
HIROSHIMA was victim to a nuclear attack 75 years ago today, with one of the atomic bomb's creators, Richard Feynman, describing the first time he saw the bomb being tested.
Bells have tolled in Japan’s leafy city of Hiroshima, but memorial events were scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic. On August 6, 1945, a US bomber dropped the uranium bomb, or atomic bomb, above the city. It resulted in the deaths of 140,000 people and generations of biological suffering.
On Thursday morning, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the mayor of Hiroshima joined bomb survivors and descendants in the city's Peace Park.
The park is usually packed to mark the event but attendance was visibly reduced this year, with chairs spaced out and attendees wearing masks.
A moment's silence was held at 8:15am, the exact time the bomb was dropped on the city.
The bomb was drawn-up by a team of scientists during World War 2 in New Mexico in what became known as the Manhattan Project.
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Professor Feynman had been expected, as the scientist, to go with the first flight to Hiroshima to ensure nothing went wrong.
The bomb was so successful on its first test, however, that the pilots didn't need a scientist.
Three days after Hiroshima was devastated, a second bomb was detonated over the city of Nagasaki.
Here, some 100,000 people are estimated to have perished.
The attacks led to Japan’s declaration of surrender and the end of the war.
After the success of the bombs, Prof Feynman described celebrations as having taken place at the New Mexico headquarters.
He said: “There was a very considerable elation.
“Quite a lot of parties and people got drunk.
“It would make a tremendously interesting contrast of what was going on is Los Alamos at the same time of what was going on in Hiroshima.”
Deeply disturbed by the mass bloodshed he had enabled, the atomic bomb would stay with Prof Feynman for the rest of his life.
www.express.co.uk/news/world/1319334/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-nagasaki-japan-world-war-2-us-military-history-asia-news-spt
Bells have tolled in Japan’s leafy city of Hiroshima, but memorial events were scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic. On August 6, 1945, a US bomber dropped the uranium bomb, or atomic bomb, above the city. It resulted in the deaths of 140,000 people and generations of biological suffering.
On Thursday morning, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the mayor of Hiroshima joined bomb survivors and descendants in the city's Peace Park.
The park is usually packed to mark the event but attendance was visibly reduced this year, with chairs spaced out and attendees wearing masks.
A moment's silence was held at 8:15am, the exact time the bomb was dropped on the city.
The bomb was drawn-up by a team of scientists during World War 2 in New Mexico in what became known as the Manhattan Project.
[...]
Professor Feynman had been expected, as the scientist, to go with the first flight to Hiroshima to ensure nothing went wrong.
The bomb was so successful on its first test, however, that the pilots didn't need a scientist.
Three days after Hiroshima was devastated, a second bomb was detonated over the city of Nagasaki.
Here, some 100,000 people are estimated to have perished.
The attacks led to Japan’s declaration of surrender and the end of the war.
After the success of the bombs, Prof Feynman described celebrations as having taken place at the New Mexico headquarters.
He said: “There was a very considerable elation.
“Quite a lot of parties and people got drunk.
“It would make a tremendously interesting contrast of what was going on is Los Alamos at the same time of what was going on in Hiroshima.”
Deeply disturbed by the mass bloodshed he had enabled, the atomic bomb would stay with Prof Feynman for the rest of his life.
www.express.co.uk/news/world/1319334/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-nagasaki-japan-world-war-2-us-military-history-asia-news-spt
