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    Nagasaki vor und nachdem Fat Man darauf fallen gelassen wurde

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    2. MyPigWhistles on

      To put that into perspective: Fat Man was a 21 kt nuke. A single French submarine launched M45 missile carries up to 10 indepent T75 thermonuclear warheads. After reentry, each of those 10 warheads can be directed towards a different target and is capable of a 110 kt blast. So basically, this one missile carries 1.100 kt of nuclear explosions, which is 52 times as powerful as Fat Man. A single Triomphant-class submarine carries 16 of those missiles.  

      Fat Man would be considered a low yield, tactical nuke by modern standards. 

    3. GraniteGeekNH on

      The father of a childhood friend worked in photo reconnaissance in WWII – looking at pictures after bombing runs, to judge accuracy. His team developed the rolls from Hiroshima and, he told his kids, at first they thought the camera had malfunctioned because they couldn’t see much of anything. Then they realized what had happened.

    5. sj1024 on

      Believe it or not, this was nothing compared to the fire bombing of Japanese cities. Only a few cities survived fire bombing to become a potential target for nuke.

    7. LexGonGiveItToYa on

      Interestingly enough, even with the damage displayed in the photograph, this particular bombing was considered a blunder. It was a cloudy day when it happened and the pilot, Charles Sweeney had difficulty getting clear visuals.

      Because of this difficulty of getting sight, and the time sensitivity of the mission, he dropped the bomb on the first thing he saw, which was a racing track (which you can see in these photos and still exists today). As a result, he missed his target by quite some bit and hit the less densely-populated northern part of the city, killing a smaller number of people than intended.

      When he arrived back on base, his failure to hit the specific target earned him a chastising from General Curtis LeMay, who then decided not to punish him. But as a result, Nagasaki, while obviously still devastated by the power of the bomb, was not completely destroyed by it either, as opposed to ground zero in Hiroshima, which was in the central part of the city.

    8. sljxuoxada on

      I went to Ground Zero on the anniversary of the bomb a few years ago, and it was a really sobering experience. Amazing to see how the city has grown back though. People are the most dangerous animal on Earth.

    11. SubjectiveMouse on

      Terrorist shithole us doing genocides since it’s inception. If anything it’s Wachington had to be bombed that day. 

    14. komatose09 on

      I think its important to note that Japan’s cities were primarily made of wooden structures then, so yeah the bomb did some localized overpressure damage, its the thousands of subsequent uncontaimable fires that broke out from the heat of it that destroyed most of things

    15. GrouchyHippopotamus on

      The civilian suffering in Hiroshima and Nagasaki pales in comparison to what the Japanese were doing to the millions of civilians in the territory they occupied during the war. The cruel, sadistic things they inflicted are absolutely horrendous and somehow not very well known. The Japanese are still refusing to own up to it and are rolling over and playing the victims when they started the war. These bombs shortened the war and saved millions.

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