After one Presidential hopeful started to talk about obliterating a country, many commenters here were outraged. Now there are new, horrible pictures from Hiroshima.
After the flip, what obliterate means in the nuclear era.
The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family.
and the link to the pictures. Not for children, black&white pictures.
And the links to the pictures may not work 100%, i'm guessing there is lot of traffic.
I remember reading that the US did try to collect all possible pictures of the victims. Maybe for scientific reasons, perhaps to stop people from seeing the images.
Usually we see the mushroom cloud and some areas with few standing buildings. No, these are real people and that is what war looks like.
Short diary, but makes me think about the "i want to obliterate" attitude.