The Wall by Matthew Patterson https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d When in Doubt, Bomb it Out en-us 2017-05-17 16:01:44 UTC 2025-11-06 01:49:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png Useful Website 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172375563 "August 4, 2015- A few months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General Dwight D. Eisenhower commented during a social occasion “how he had hoped that the war might have ended without our having to use the atomic bomb.” This virtually unknown evidence from the diary of Robert P. Meiklejohn, an assistant to Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, published for the first time today by the National Security Archive, confirms that the future President Eisenhower had early misgivings about the first use of atomic weapons by the United States. General George C. Marshall is the only high-level official whose contemporaneous (pre-Hiroshima) doubts about using the weapons against cities are on record."
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb525-The-Atomic-Bomb-and-the-End-of-World-War-II/]]> 2017-05-17 16:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172375563 Manhatten Project 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172375935 Michael Pumiglia
"Even after the flames had subsided, relief from the outside was slow in coming.  For hours after the attack the Japanese government did not even know for sure what had happened.  Radio and telegraph communications with Hiroshima had suddenly ended at 8:16 a.m., and vague reports of some sort of large explosion had begun to filter in, but the Japanese high command knew that no large-scale air raid had taken place over the city and that there were no large stores of explosives there.  Eventually a Japanese staff officer was dispatched by plane to survey the city from overhead, and while he was still nearly 100 miles away from the city he began to report on a huge cloud of smoke that hung over it"

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/hiroshima.htm]]> 2017-05-17 16:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172375935 Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172376781 Michael Pumiglia 
"The time has come for Japan to decide whether she will continue to be controlled by those self-willed militaristic advisers whose unintelligent calculations have brought the Empire of Japan to the threshold of annihilation, or whether she will follow the path of reason."

http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/etc/c06.html
]]> 2017-05-17 16:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172376781 Little Boy 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172377466 2017-05-17 16:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172377466 Fat Man 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172377898 2017-05-17 16:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172377898 Explosion 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172378293 2017-05-17 16:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172378293 After Effect 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172378527 2017-05-17 16:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172378527 Was it Right? 8patterm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172380153 Michael Pumiglia
In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed swiftly. Enola Gay faced no resistance as it dropped the bomb. Forty five seconds later the city was destroyed in a blinding instant. Eighty thousand men, women and children were killed and tens of thousands wounded, disfigured and poisoned by radiation from the bomb.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zq7yg82]]> 2017-05-17 16:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172380153 Opinion Polls 8maggsjt https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172383499 During War

Opinion polls taken immediately after the war found overwhelming support for America’s decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In August of 1945, 85 percent of Americans supported the decision to use atomic bombs on Japanese cities, compared to just 10 percent who said they opposed it.

Millennials

In a different poll taken around the same time, 23 percent of respondents said they wished the United States had dropped more atomic bombs on Japan before Tokyo had a chance to surrender. That was more people than opposed the decision to use the bomb.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/us-millenials-say-america-was-wrong-drop-atomic-bombs-japan-13409
]]> 2017-05-17 16:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172383499 Hiroshima victims 8maggsjt https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172472369 2017-05-18 02:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172472369 Comparison between the two bombs 8maggsjt https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172472504 2017-05-18 02:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172472504 Why did Truman decide to drop the bomb? 8maggsjt https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172473430 A week after the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered.  World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history, with between 50 and 85 million fatalities, was finally over. ]]> 2017-05-18 02:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172473430 Truman Press Release 8maggsjt https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172473675 "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare."]]> 2017-05-18 02:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172473675 Truman announcing his plan to drop the bomb 8maggsjt https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172474766 2017-05-18 02:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172474766 First hand accounts of Hiroshima 8pumiglm https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172812978 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hiroshima.htm
"The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, reflecting sunlight from a cloudless sky, made a pleasant contrast with shadows in my garden as I gazed absently through wide-flung doors opening to the south.
Clad in drawers and undershirt, I was sprawled on the living room floor exhausted because I had just spent a sleepless night on duty as an air warden in my hospital.
Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled me - and then another. So well does one recall little things that I remember vividly how a stone lantern in the garden became brilliantly lit and I debated whether this light was caused by a magnesium flare or sparks from a passing trolley.
Garden shadows disappeared. The view where a moment before had been so bright and sunny was now dark and hazy. Through swirling dust I could barely discern a wooden column that had supported one comer of my house. It was leaning crazily and the roof sagged dangerously.
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Moving instinctively, I tried to escape, but rubble and fallen timbers barred the way. By picking my way cautiously I managed to reach the roka [an outside hallway] and stepped down into my garden. A profound weakness overcame me, so I stopped to regain my strength. To my surprise I discovered that I was completely naked How odd! Where were my drawers and undershirt?
What had happened?
All over the right side of my body I was cut and bleeding. A large splinter was protruding from a mangled wound in my thigh, and something warm trickled into my mouth. My check was torn, I discovered as I felt it gingerly, with the lower lip laid wide open. Embedded in my neck was a sizable fragment of glass which I matter-of-factly dislodged, and with the detachment of one stunned and shocked I studied it and my blood-stained hand.
Where was my wife?
Suddenly thoroughly alarmed, I began to yell for her: 'Yaeko-san! Yaeko-san! Where are you?' Blood began to spurt. Had my carotid artery been cut? Would I bleed to death? Frightened and irrational, I called out again 'It's a five-hundred-ton bomb! Yaeko-san, where are you? A five- hundred-ton bomb has fallen!'
Yaeko-san, pale and frightened, her clothes torn and blood stained, emerged from the ruins of our house holding her elbow. Seeing her, I was reassured. My own panic assuaged, I tried to reassure her.
'We'll be all right,' I exclaimed. 'Only let's get out of here as fast as we can.'
She nodded, and I motioned for her to follow me." ]]> 2017-05-19 14:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/8patterm/h3110w0r1d/wish/172812978