a bottle of life: The Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

let's just remember the day Hiroshima and Nagasaki was being bombed by the US whom until now always state particular reason why they did release 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'.

there are reasons given but should we accept them as like that?? for me No. watever reason they've given i will still have their image as the bad guy for killing more than 200,000 civilians.

these are the damages done by those two deadly 'creature' created by US.

first picture : Little Boy

though it is called as Little Boy the effect of this bomb causes approximately 70,000 civilians died immediately from the explosion and another 70,000 died due to the radiation within 5years. Hiroshima was the witness for this deadlicious bomb and was the 'lucky' town to be chosen as a witness for the effect.

there are actually four other towns like Hiroshima itself, Kokura, Nagasaki and Niigata that Uncle Sam had considered but it was released in Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 at 8.15am.

enola gay - B29 bomber plane that was responsible for carrying Little Boy.

the quotation made by the seargent after the release of Little Boy :-

Staff Sergeant George Caron, the tail gunner, described what he saw: "The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside. . . . It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city. . . ."

two thirds of Hiroshima had been destroyed. 60,000 of 90,000 buildings had been destroyed.

the cloud causes by the effect of Little Boy.

a co-pilot had quoted ....

"Where we had seen a clear city two minutes before, we could no longer see the city. We could see smoke and fires creeping up the sides of the mountains."

here are some other pictures of Hiroshima's aftermath.

Enough of Hiroshima, let's start talking about Nagasaki.

second picture : Fat Man

the name's Fat Man must have bring the thought that it would had a bigger impact than Little Boy as it is fatter than the earlier bomb.

the thing is, it effect lesser than Little Boy.

this plane was responsible for the second disaster.

Fat Man was carried by Bock's Car, another B29 bomber plane.

the bomb was released just after three days Little Boy was released in Hiroshima. this time Nagasaki was the 'lucky' city.

On the 9th of August 1945 at 11.02 am Fat Man was released.

the famous 'mushroom cloud' over the bombing of Nagasaki that causes 70,000 civilians to be dead by the end of the year.

although the effect was not as great as Little Boy it did causes damage to the city as approximately 40percent was destroyed.

Fujie Urata Matsumoto, a survivor, shares one scene:

The pumpkin field in front of the house was blown clean. Nothing was left of the whole thick crop, except that in place of the pumpkins there was a woman's head. I looked at the face to see if I knew her. It was a woman of about forty. She must have been from another part of town -- I had never seen her around here. A gold tooth gleamed in the wide-open mouth. A handful of singed hair hung down from the left temple over her cheek, dangling in her mouth. Her eyelids were drawn up, showing black holes where the eyes had been burned out. . . . She had probably looked square into the flash and gotten her eyeballs burned.

Kayano Nagai, another survivor had commented over the bombing effect...

I saw the atom bomb. I was four then. I remember the cicadas chirping. The atom bomb was the last thing that happened in the war and no more bad things have happened since then, but I don't have my Mummy any more. So even if it isn't bad any more, I'm not happy.