Hiroshima is best remembered as the first city targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the city at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945. Most of the city was destroyed, and by the end of the year 90,000-166,000 had died as a result of the blast and its effects. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) serves as a memorial of the bombing.
Hiroshima, Dresden, now Beirut. We have an amazing capacity for destruction. If we don't send out a large fleet of space probes in all directions, broadcasting Beethoven quartets into the void to tell others we were once here, before we self-destruct, it wiil have been an awful waste.
No need, they are better informed than the average person.
Former Canadian Minister of Defence Paul Hellyer said: "Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after."
Do you think the Japanese would have been different if they had nuclear capabilities?
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (alternately written as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking) was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.
Do you think the Japanese would have been different if they had nuclear capabilities?
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (alternately written as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking) was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting.
Well, I guess we're even now. Served 'em right? Saved lives? etc. This was intended as a memoriam thread for the Hiroshima victims, not a contentious debate/conflict, so please be cognizant of that intent and stay on topic. Yeah, sure....
I was unpacking and shelving some of my LPs last weekend, and happened across this very good one. Of course, Bruno Maderna, the conductor here, was himself an important composer. I included Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima in my contribution in a thread here asking for lists of the most important works after 1950. (I think).
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