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Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found
EccentricAnomaly writes "In 1945 journalist George Weller snuck past the American occupying forces and became the first American Journalist to see the devastation left by the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki. His story infuriated MacArthur, who had it quashed. The Japanese paper, Mainichi, has now published Weller's account. CNN has a story discussing how it was found." From the Mainichi article: "As one whittles away at embroidery and checks the stories, the impression grows that the atomic bomb is a tremendous, but not a peculiar weapon. The Japanese have heard the legend from American radio that the ground preserves deadly irradiation. But hours of walking amid the ruins where the odor of decaying flesh is still strong produces in this writer nausea, but no sign or burns or debilitation."
Is this really news for nerds? I come here for some cool news/links about technology. Instead about 50% of the posts are blatently political with no relevance to technology. There are already numerous forums for this.
Perhaps the next war we be a true man-on-man war. Two men will stand near, and battle each other with their penises. No more bullets, not more rockets. Only sperm blobs and erectile stabbings. The victor would drop his ballsack onto the loser's chin and forehead in a show of teabaggery. That is what the future holds, my friend.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
And before you blame them for following stupid orders blindly, the people who are truly at fault are the US citizens for willfully putting such incompetence in charge of such a powerful weapon.
Ya, look at the results:
- Taliban out of power in Afghanistan, Democracy taking root, country rebuilding, NATO in action, girls in school, Al Qaeda training camps destroyed
- Saddam out of power in Iraq and waiting for trial, no more mass graves being filled yearly, country is rebuilding, Democracy taking root, Islamists desperate and failing
- Libya sees firm action in Iraq and hands over WMD program to US/Europe and seeks rapprochement
- Lebanese see Iraqi vote, kick out Syrians, work on reforms
- Dear Leader in N. Korea goes into hiding when Saddam bombed, emerges to grudgingly take part in 6 country talks to resolve nuclear crisis
Yow! Can you imagine how much better off everyone would be if we had elected a President who was too smart to get involved in those messes and left sleeping dictators lie?
I guess we should learn our lesson about that whole "democracy" thing in the US.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell