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What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010
An anonymous reader writes "The editor of Phoronix.com has toured Chernobyl's Zone of Alienation (the 30km zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) to see what the area looks like 24 years after the world's largest nuclear disaster. Many photographs from Chernobyl in 2010 have now been published, showing off the power plant and its RBMK reactors, the town of Pripyat, the town of Chernobyl, and the Red Forest. The 24th anniversary of this deadly nuclear disaster will be on April 26."
Considering how many civilians would have died in Japanese held territories had the war dragged on further, yes its fair. And before you say, "The Japanese would have given up anyway", bear in mind that even AFTER the atomic bombs were dropped there was still a huge faction of the military that wanted to continue fighting. In fact the night before the emperor's surrender speech was broadcast a group of them tried to occupy the palace and tried to find and destroy the recording. They were not successful and Japan surrendered.
Monstar L
any links please?
Just to set things straight from reality, I'll tell you that you can very easily find out about these other facts and alternative theories. In fact, I was taught some of them in public school (yes, that's right). This isn't the Soviet Union. Information actually is available. Now whether some people choose to seek it out or listen to it is another issue. But please don't accuse Americans of just listening to "government bulletins" (!!! seriously? Almost no news is disseminated that way here).