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IIRC, Peace Memorial Park is in the center of the bottom photo, city hall ruins are in the lower center of bottom of the photo and the museum is the long building above the grassy area.
Hiroshima target of the atomic bomb -- T-Bridge and City Hall. Bomb was detonated 60 feet above city hall--adjacent T-bridge was the target. Aug. 6, 1945
Seems you are the only one denying. Have you been there? Seen the devastation? Run along.And for Deniers .
Seems you are the only one denying. Have you been there? Seen the devastation? Run along.
Thats what they want you to think. The truth is out there!And not a single giant lizard or insect in sight.
I was born in Tokyo six years and 24 days after the bombing and I've returned in the interim. WWII had enough blame to go around for everyone and I hope we never see a repeat. That being said, I don't believe the dropping of the bombs was necessary. Japan was virtually in defeat and their gov't was in session trying to find a way to exit the war and save face. I believe the US wanted to test the bomb in a real life situation. This is evidenced by the fact that we used two differently configured bombs for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No one will really ever know, but that is the conclusion I've come to after seeing the devastation and reading a few works on it. A good easy read on the event is "Hiroshima" by John Hershey. He traveled to the area while the ashes were still warm and published the book in 1946. It is informative.I'll say this: While I do not fault Truman for dropping the bomb (I had an uncle die at Pearl Harbor), I can't say I'm real happy to see innocent people suffer. Recently, I caught an interview of a survivor of Hiroshima, I guess she was just a little girl at the time, maybe in school or something, I'm not sure how she survived unscathed (or maybe she has just healed in the interim) as apparently everyone around her died and was incinerated, but I was taken by her description of some of the things she saw.
She was near a window when the bomb detonated, and what I found interesting was that she said that all of a sudden, there was this bright blue light outside and she saw everything going up.
Another thing she saw that took me back was one of the survivors walking around after the detonation: he was walking around with his eyeballs out, holding them in his hands.
Nuclear war is a terrible thing and I hope to god it never happens again.
Seems you are the only one denying. Have you been there? Seen the devastation? Run along.
I believe before WW 2 there was an effort to stop the destruction of cities and mass killing of civilians. It changed. Now we all are in the crosshairs of WMD's.I'll say this: While I do not fault Truman for dropping the bomb (I had an uncle die at Pearl Harbor), I can't say I'm real happy to see innocent people suffer. Recently, I caught an interview of a survivor of Hiroshima, I guess she was just a little girl at the time, maybe in school or something, I'm not sure how she survived unscathed (or maybe she has just healed in the interim) as apparently everyone around her died and was incinerated, but I was taken by her description of some of the things she saw.
She was near a window when the bomb detonated, and what I found interesting was that she said that all of a sudden, there was this bright blue light outside and she saw everything going up.
Another thing she saw that took me back was one of the survivors walking around after the detonation: he was walking around with his eyeballs out, holding them in his hands.
Nuclear war is a terrible thing and I hope to god it never happens again.
It's not environmental regs slowing the process. It's the soil and topo. I designed some terraced parking lots out there years ago. The area has to be terraced due to topo and it is prone to mudslides. After a a large fire it is even more prone to mud slides. The root systems of the plants is what holds the soil together. Way harder area to design and build in. Not to mention all this has to be earth quake resistant. Took me well over twice as long to complete projects out there as opposed to Ohio. North West Ohio can be difficult to design heavy structures such as sky scrapers and bridges due to all the sand stone base that exists. I worked on a thirty span bridge that was a nightmare to figure out due to the sand stone.Wow, when will the Japanese ever learn? The entire city leveled flat like a parking lot and what do they do? They rebuild it into a beautiful new bustling city.
Now contrast that to the USA--- Los Angeles has the entire city of Palisades and Malibu leveled by fire flat as a pancake, but instead they do the right thing and first tie up clean up through endless environmental regulations, then they tie up property repair and rebuilding through massive bureaucratic restrictions, to finally just seize al of the property through eminent domain loopholes to take the property from its owners to be rebuilt as apartment buildings for illegal migrants!
It's not environmental regs slowing the process. It's the soil and topo. I designed some terraced parking lots out there years ago. The area has to be terraced due to topo and it is prone to mudslides. After a a large fire it is even more prone to mud slides. The root systems of the plants is what holds the soil together. Way harder area to design and build in. Not to mention all this has to be earth quake resistant. Took me well over twice as long to complete projects out there as opposed to Ohio. North West Ohio can be difficult to design heavy structures such as sky scrapers and bridges due to all the sand stone base that exists. I worked on a thirty span bridge that was a nightmare to figure out due to the sand stone.
Malibu is a design nightmare. You can add in ocean hydrology and wind sheer into it yes the rich like to out their crap where it should not be. This is all over the US. They want their lake front homes on natural lakes. Then bitch about fertilizer run off creating algae issues. Well typically natural lakes have marshlands and swamps that work as a natural filter. They drained these and built houses. Then they wonder why their drinking water source gets algae. Restore the swamps and marshlands they won't have that issue. The other thing they could do is build some shallow channels introduce a bunch of duck weed and infect the main body of water with zebra muscles. I am not a biologist so I am not sure what a non native species of zebra muscles does to the whole system but would certainly reduce the algae issues.Yep, I know the area. In other words, these are places that probably never should have been developed and used the way they were, but these LA/Hollywood people prize these locations with the radical, folded, up/down hilly locations created from the San Andreas slip fault for their exotic nature and privacy.
When finished, the stuff sure LOOKS good, and there is a certain "exclusivity" to it all.
Just north of this area is a lot of goat buttes once owned by Fox Ranch where they shot a lot of movies and TV shows like M*A*S*H, Kung Fu, etc.