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My travel adventures have resulted in some incredible travel stories over the years. Some are uplifting tales of the best of people, some are an overview of our biggest challenges in this world, but most of all - they are my experiences. Not just of the physical kind, but of the emotional kind. Unforgettable experiences that have been burnt into my psyche.  

Hiroshima - showing the way back...

18/2/2016

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Location: Hiroshima
Activity: Pondering Human Actions
Acommodation: Aki's Place AirBnB
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3 Words: War Really Sucks!

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I have to admit I never really understood the Atomic Bomb Vs The Nuke. I knew they both were somehow associated with radiation but in all honesty I just wasn't interested enough to investigate further. Now that you know that, you can see that I could never quite understand how HIroshima and Nagasaki were still populated. I know, now that I say that out loud it seems pretty dumb but I would think about it and then before I could ask anyone or research it I would forget it and the cycle continued.

Hiroshima was on my Japan route for various reasons but I have to say primarily it was to see the Atomic Bomb dome and to visit the museum. After doing both National was history museums in Vietnam and Cambodia I was quite nervous I have to admit, but nowhere near nervous enough to not go. So one the train I got, and off to the museum I went.

The awful truth...

  • The first atomic bomb was dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
  • US President Harry S Truman, who announced the news from the cruiser USS Augusta in the mid-Atlantic, said the device was more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest conventional bomb previously used.
  • The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy", contained the equivalent of between 12 and 15,000 tons of TNT and devastated an area of 13 square kilometres (five square miles).
  • The bomb was dropped at 0815 local time from an American B-29 Superfortress, known as Enola Gay.
  • More than 60% of the buildings in the city were destroyed.
  • The bombings brought about an abrupt end to the war in Asia - but critics said Japan had already been on the brink of surrender. The two atomic bombs, with the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945, finally left the Japanese no choice. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 14 August 1945.
Info from BBC News Website
The museum has a unique methodology that effectively walks you through the time line of that day and then of course forward until modern day. As you walk through the museum, its not the physical destruction that hits you, its the devastation to humanity that is incomprehensible. Its impossible to imagine how anyone, could think that killing 140,000 people would be an appropriate response to any enemy action - even in war time. I can't see how the powers that be thought that it would possibly somehow, one day, be accepted. I don't think it has nor do I think it should be. 

What strikes me most is that we talk of the horror of 911, as an act of blatant terrorism, but I fail to see how this is remotely different. Sure the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbour - but that was a naval base. It was war time and as much as I cannot condone any of these actions, during war I would assume you have to expect your enemies to target your military installations. That seems like logical thinking to me. 

What you don't expect however, is that 140,000 people will be killed, in an area that had no military association what so ever and then three days later, it happens again.
The peace flame, Hiroshima City
The peace flame, Hiroshima City
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