Kaboom

[AssKissinger]

http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/

[AssKissinger]

[AssKissinger]

http://www.guzer.com/videos/massive_explosions.php

[Buraku]

[quote="GuyJean"]So civilians are game in 'a time of war'?.. Like say, the UK bombings?

No implications]

Not according to the rules of warfare, geneva conventions or rules of military engagement...

There was an old time back in medevial days when the French, Americans, British and Spanish were ruthless like the Japanese and German nazis and burned towns to the ground, did beheadings or looted, burnt witches and such people at the stake and had shit like the inquisition...
...but most of the allies tried their best to obey the rules of warfare.



1st Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
adopted in the 1860s

2nd convention "for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea" successor of the 1907 Hague Convention

3rd Fair treatment of POWS or Prisoners of War

4th Protection of innocent civilian persons in wartime, based on parts of the 1907 Hague Convention


It seems Bush has thrown the Geneva conventions, U.N rules or Hague Convention into the trash and come up with a set of his own rules such as GW's Camp Xray, Abu-ghraib and Guantanamo

So much for bringing Freedom to these folk



Boy George, Bush Hall, London

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article770448.ece

In the dancehall-style "Ragga Music", George reclaims the music from the homophobes, in what must surely be ragga's first gay-pride anthem: "In Jamaica, dem a batty boy," he sings with a happy smile. "Ina di UK - dem a batty boy."
Halfway through, things change and the band reverts to the sort of soul-pop ballads that were Culture Club's trademark. Arms wave as a new song, "Hiroshima" - "about a boy" - injects a Japanese motif into the kind of big ballad that was always a forte.

[AssKissinger]

Time for the yearly bump and boom!

[(1VB)freels]

August 6th is my son's birthday!!! HE'S DA BOMB!!!!!!!!!!

[kurohinge1]

August 6th is my son's birthday!!! HE'S DA BOMB!!!!!!!!!!

Lucky, eh - August 6 made him a "little boy".

If he was born 3 days later, he'd be a "fat man"

[Iraira]

August 6th is the anniversary of when I came to Japan. Being the anniversary of the Hiroshima A-bombing probably explains why there were no TV crews and cameras at Narita to cover my arrival.

[Korrito]

August 6th is the anniversary of when I came to Japan. Being the anniversary of the Hiroshima A-bombing probably explains why there were no TV crews and cameras at Narita to cover my arrival.

Last year I was out fission.

I didn't catch any though.

[Charles]

[GomiGirl]

August 6th is my son's birthday!!! HE'S DA BOMB!!!!!!!!!!

It is my birthday too!!

I like the badda-bing-badda-boom-boom!!

I was taken up in a helicopter yesterday for a surprise gift from my sweetheart!! Tokyo at night is amazing from the air!!

[Iraira]

Last year I was out fission.
I didn't catch any though.

That is completely out of line.....absolutely horrible....

Actually, I'm just jealous that you beat me to it.

[AssKissinger]

[Taro Toporific]

What book or source?

[Taro Toporific]

What book or source?

(Disclaimer: My father helped engineer the modifications made on the bombers that conducted the bigger-than-Hiroshima Dresden Bombing that killed the majority of our living relatives at the time.)

[IkemenTommy]

Too bad those above-ground nuclear testings are banned now.
I've heard that the actual explosion is one of the most spectacular sights to see!

[AssKissinger]

What book or source?

(Disclaimer: My father helped engineer the modifications made on the bombers that conducted the bigger-than-Hiroshima Dresden Bombing that killed the majority of our living relatives at the time.)

Time.


Also, I don't agree with you that Dresden was 'bigger-than-Hiroshima'.

[AssKissinger]

http://ap.examiner.net/pstories/world/20061129/124845095.shtml

Foreign Minister Taro Aso, who has called for discussion of Japan's non-nuclear policy, also asserted that the pacifist constitution does not forbid possession of the bomb.

[GuyJean]

[AssKissinger]

http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2347630761219274116024812478162199359466

Japan's highest court ordered Hiroshima's local government to settle medical backpayments to three Japanese citizens who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack but were deprived of government benefits because they moved to Brazil, a court official said Tuesday.

Japan's Supreme Court upheld a Hiroshima High Court ruling last February ordering the local government to pay the three more than $24,000 each as compensation for unpaid medical expenses, court spokeswoman Rie Ueda said.

The men _ Shoji Mukai, Teruo Hosokawa and Mitsugu Horioka, all now in their 70s _ moved to Brazil in the 1950s and 60s under a government emigration program.

They only were provided medical care and allowances when they made the occasional visit to Japan. Once they went back to Brazil, the payments stopped, prompting the three survivors to file a lawsuit in 2002.

'This ruling is not a surprise,' public broadcaster NHK quoted Hosokawa as saying from Sao Paulo, where he lives. [SIZE="5"]'The country discriminated unfairly against us just because we live abroad,[/SIZE] even though we are atomic bomb victims just like the others.

$24,000 in their 70's. Too little too late I'd say.

[Doctor Stop]

[Iraira]

TOKYO — Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, a news report said Saturday.

"I understand that the bombing ended the war, and I think that it couldn't be helped," Kyodo News agency quoted Kyuma as saying in a speech at a university in Chiba, just east of Tokyo.

Kyuma's remarks drew immediate criticism from Japanese atomic bomb survivors.

"The U.S. justifies the bombings saying they saved many American lives," said Nobuo Miyake, 78, director-general of a group of victims living in Tokyo. "It's outrageous for a Japanese politician to voice such thinking. Japan is a victim."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287453,00.html

[AssKissinger]

How 'explosive' was your birthday this year, Gomi?

[AssKissinger]

Pilot of plane that dropped A-bomb dies By JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press Writer
28 minutes ago



Paul Tibbets, who etched his mother's name — Enola Gay — into history on the nose of the B-29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, died Thursday after six decades of steadfastly defending the mission. He was 92.

Throughout his life, Tibbets seemed more troubled by other people's objections to the bomb than by having led the crew that killed tens of thousands of Japanese in a single stroke. The attack marked the beginning of the end of World War II.

Tibbets grew tired of criticism for delivering the first nuclear weapon used in wartime, telling family and friends that he wanted no funeral service or headstone because he feared a burial site would only give detractors a place to protest.

And he insisted he slept just fine, believing with certainty that using the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved more lives than they erased because they eliminated the need for a drawn-out invasion of Japan.

"He said, 'What they needed was someone who could do this and not flinch — and that was me,'" said journalist Bob Greene, who wrote the Tibbets biography, "Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War."

Tibbets, 92, died at his Columbus home after a two-month decline caused by a variety of health problems, said Gerry Newhouse, a longtime friend.

"I'm not proud that I killed 80,000 people, but I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did," he said in a 1975 interview.

"You've got to take stock and assess the situation at that time. We were at war. ... You use anything at your disposal."

He added: "I sleep clearly every night."

Filmmaker Ken Burns said Tibbets' life "helps to take this incredible, gigantic event and personalize it. This is a real human being who changed the course of the world inexorably on that August morning."

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was born Feb. 23, 1915, in Quincy, Ill., and spent most of his boyhood in Miami. He was a student at the University of Cincinnati's medical school when he decided to withdraw in 1937 to enlist in the Army Air Corps.

"I knew when I got the assignment it was going to be an emotional thing," Tibbets told The Columbus Dispatch for a story on the 60th anniversary of the bombing. "We had feelings, but we had to put them in the background. We knew it was going to kill people right and left. But my one driving interest was to do the best job I could so that we could end the killing as quickly as possible."

Tibbets, a 30-year-old colonel at the time, and his crew of 13 dropped the five-ton "Little Boy" bomb over Hiroshima the morning of Aug. 6, 1945. The blast killed or injured at least 140,000.

Three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing at least 60,000 people. Tibbets did not fly in that mission. The Japanese surrendered a few days later.

"It did in fact end the war," said Morris Jeppson, the officer who armed the bomb during the Hiroshima flight. "Ending the war saved a lot of U.S. armed forces and Japanese civilians and military. History has shown there was no need to criticize him."

After the war, Tibbets said in 2005, he was dogged by rumors claiming he was in prison or had committed suicide.

"They said I was crazy, said I was a drunkard, in and out of institutions," he said. "At the time, I was running the National Crisis Center at the Pentagon."

Tibbets retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general in 1966. He moved to Columbus, where he ran an air taxi service until he retired in 1985.

In 1976, he was criticized for re-enacting the bombing during an appearance at a Harlingen, Texas, air show. As he flew a B-29 Superfortress over the show, a bomb set off on the runway below created a mushroom cloud.

He said the display "was not intended to insult anybody," but the Japanese were outraged. The U.S. government later issued a formal apology.

Tibbets again defended the bombing in 1995, when an outcry erupted over a planned 50th anniversary exhibit of the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian Institution.

The museum had planned to mount an exhibit that would have provided the context of the bombing, including the discussion within the Truman administration of whether to use the bomb, the rejection of a demonstration bombing and the selection of a target.

Veterans groups objected that it paid too much attention to Japan's suffering and too little to Japan's brutality during and before World War II, and that it underestimated the number of Americans who would have perished in an invasion. They said the bombing of Japan was an unmitigated blessing for the United States and its fighting men and the exhibit should say so.

Tibbets denounced it as "a damn big insult."

The museum changed its plan, and agreed to display the fuselage of the Enola Gay without commentary, context or analysis.

The National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton plans a photographic tribute to Tibbets, who was inducted in 1996.

"There are few in the history of mankind that have been called to figuratively carry as much weight on their shoulders as Paul Tibbets," director Ron Kaplan said in a news release. "Even fewer were able to do so with a sense of honor and duty to their countrymen as did Paul."

Tibbets told the Dispatch in 2005 he wanted his ashes scattered over the English Channel, where he loved to fly during the war.

He is survived by his wife, Andrea, and three sons, Paul, Gene and James, as well as a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A grandson named after Tibbets followed his grandfather into the military as a B-2 bomber pilot currently stationed in Belgium.

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[AssKissinger]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080805/wl_asia_afp/japanuswwiinuclear_080805020806

About 1.25 million people visit the museum each year, spending an average of 45 minutes there, far short of the three hours that is necessary to fully view the exhibitions, according to museum officials.

[Buraku]

(Reuters)
Tens of thousands bowed their heads at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday, the 63rd anniversary of the world's first atomic attack, as the city's mayor hit out at countries that refuse to abandon their bombs.


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"We who seek the abolition of nuclear weapons are the majority," mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said in a speech at the Peace Memorial Park, attended by the ambassador of nuclear-armed China, as well as Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and elderly survivors of the attack.

"Last year 170 countries voted in favor of Japan's U.N. resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Only three countries, the United States among them, opposed this resolution," he said.

The United States and other world powers fear Iran is developing nuclear weapons, while Tehran says its atomic program is for power generation. Washington and others have warned of more sanctions against Tehran, which they accuse of playing for time in the dispute.


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The average age of survivors is over 75 and Akiba said he would launch a survey into the emotional damage they suffered.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Every year I get a big hard on around this time.

[Torimaro]

thats funny, I always get stiff in december...

[Iraira]

I'm waiting for the biggest orgasm ever....armageddon (not the movie)

[Mike Oxlong]

Heck, just walking past Micky-D's does it for me.