Kaboom

[AssKissinger]

Today is August 6.

[ramchop]

Nice date for the FG baby (now FG 1yr old) to have a birthday.

[Taro Toporific]

Today is August 6.

I've got my necktie on

[tidbits]

another 2 days is International Orgasm Day.

[Taro Toporific]

another 2 days is International Orgasm Day.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, I loooooooove that you mentioned that.


But wait, in just 10 days...

At least three Cabinet members to visit Yasukuni on Aug. 15
Japan Times, Aug 6

Three Cabinet ministers said Tuesday they will visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, the 58th anniversary of the end of World War II. ...Yasukuni honors Japan's war dead and the nation's World War II leaders convicted as Class-A war criminals by the Allied-led tribunal after the war. South and North Korea and China regularly denounce visits by leading Japanese politicians to the shrine.
People in Japan opposed to a return to militarism, and those opposed to perceived links between the state and the Shinto religion, also protest the visits.

[Taro Toporific]

Today is August 6.

Hiroshima mayor claims U.S. worships nuclear weapons 'as God'
HIROSHIMA, Aug. 6, Kyodo - Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 58th anniversary of its annihilation by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, with its mayor saying the United States seems to ''worship nuclear weapons as God.''

[Taro Toporific]

Today is August 6.

Hiroshima mayor claims U.S. worships nuclear weapons 'as God'
HIROSHIMA, Aug. 6, Kyodo

Godzilla, center, fights against MechaGodzilla, right, and Mothra ... 'Godzilla-Mothra-MechaGodzilla, Tokyo SOS' is under shooting to prepare for a release in December 2003 ...
AP / Mon Aug 4, 3:58 AM ET

[AssKissinger]

Nuclear weapons are big and gnarly but not God.

[AssKissinger]

Something to worship?

[Taro Toporific]

www.batguano.com/nuclear

Something to worship?

Ok, worship this...



Tue Aug 5,11:50 PM ET... stage a 'die-in' ... an annual ritual of remembrance

[AssKissinger]

What the fuck? It's August 6th today so I'm bumping this thread. Is that ok?

[kamome]

What the fuck? It's August 6th today so I'm bumping this thread. Is that ok?

Sure...except for the fact that all of Taro's pics are no longer visible. Taro, do you remember what the pictures were?

[AssKissinger]

Today is August 6.

Hiroshima mayor claims U.S. worships nuclear weapons 'as God'
- Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 58th anniversary of its annihilation by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, with its mayor saying the United States seems to ''worship nuclear weapons as God.''

NEW YORK - Thousands of activists marched past the United Nations on Sunday, urging diplomats reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to remember the horrors of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki six decades ago and not allow them to be repeated.



Chanting "No War, No Nukes" and carrying signs saying "No More Hiroshima, No more Nagasaki," the marchers then headed to Central Park, where they formed a human peace symbol. Organizers put the number of protesters at 40,000.

The mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, told the crowd that the survivors of the bombs were "the only people who have had the experience of nuclear war."

"For them the world is a family, and we need to work together so that no member of this family will have to suffer the pain that they suffered in 1945," he said.

One of those survivors, Sunao Tsuboi, was a 20-year-old college student when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Speaking through an interpreter, he spoke of the physical and mental anguish he has experienced, saying he has suffered from prostate and colon cancer, among other ailments.

"After so many years I have survived, but I have many, many illnesses," he said. "That's why we call the atomic bomb the absolute evil."

[AssKissinger]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/16/thousands_mark_trinity_site_anniversary/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News

By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press Writer | July 16, 2005

WHITE SANDS MISSLE RANGE, N.M. --Thousands of people gathered Saturday at Trinity Site, a restricted area of the White Sands Missile Range, to mark the 60th anniversary of the world's first test of an atomic weapon.

Scientists working at Trinity site as part of The Manhattan Project created the nuclear device used in the test on July 16, 1945. That successful detonation led to the construction of the two atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Japan in August 1945, essentially stunning Japan into surrender and ending World War II.


Emmett Hatch, who visited Trinity Site on Saturday, recalled how his grandmother ordered him to drop to his knees and pray on July 16, 1945, shortly after the atomic blast.

She was awake at 5:29:45 Mountain War Time that morning in Portales to make breakfast and saw the explosion from more than 220 miles away.

"She thought it was the coming of the Lord, because the sun rose in the west that day," said Hatch, who was 8 years old at the time.



Clemente Deister of Socorro was in the Marines fighting in the South Pacific during World War II when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

He watched the faces of visitors to the Trinity Site on Saturday. "I find all kinds of expressions of sadness and horror," he said.

The blast produced a flash of light that was seen 250 miles away, a roar heard 50 miles away and a mushroom cloud that rose 40,000 feet.

"The most amazing part of it to all of us is that it seemed to last so long," Jay Wechsler of Espanola, who measured the explosion that day, recalled in an interview before the Trinity Site tour. "The cloud just looked like it was boiling and luminescent and kept on going up and up and up and seemed like it was never going to stop."

"I had no conception that it could wipe out a small city," said Herb Lehr of Mesa, Ariz., who helped put the bomb together at Trinity Site.

Ben Benjamin, a photographer who documented the Manhattan Project, recalled that after seeing the blast he said: "My God, it's beautiful."

But Benjamin, who did not go on Saturday's tour, said another man who worked on the project told him the blast was horrible and that he could think of nothing more than the moral implications.

"I thought about it, of course," said Benjamin, who now lives in Albuquerque. "But I also thought, 'Didn't these guys bring it on themselves?' Look what they did at Pearl Harbor."

[AssKissinger]

Did anyone else read Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard?

http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Empire_Of_The_Sun_-_J.G._Ballard-28450-1.html

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/artsandentertainment/0,6121,96036,00.html



There's a passage in there where the main character (based on real life experience of Ballard, but fictionalized) can see a flash of light from the Nagasaki bomb from Shanghai. Now check out this map.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/factbook/ch/index.html

Does anyone think that's really possible? Remember the Nagasaki blast occurred in the morning and the sun rises in the east.

The kid also says it was like God took a picture and a million people died. The Nagasaki death toll was, of course, way under a million so...

[Samurai_Jerk]

"I thought about it, of course," said Benjamin, who now lives in Albuquerque. "But I also thought, 'Didn't these guys bring it on themselves?' Look what they did at Pearl Harbor."

Good for him.

[GuyJean]

"I thought about it, of course," said Benjamin, who now lives in Albuquerque. "But I also thought, 'Didn't these guys bring it on themselves?' Look what they did at Pearl Harbor."

Good for him.

So civilians are game in 'a time of war'?.. Like say, the UK bombings?

No implications; just curious..

GJ

[Samurai_Jerk]

"I thought about it, of course," said Benjamin, who now lives in Albuquerque. "But I also thought, 'Didn't these guys bring it on themselves?' Look what they did at Pearl Harbor."

Good for him.

So civilians are game in 'a time of war'?.. Like say, the UK bombings?

No implications]

As long as they're on the side I don't agree with.

[AssKissinger]

Like say, the UK bombings?

Are you talking about the recent Tube bombings?

[AssKissinger]

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68242,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7#

20 Japanese Zen priests left San Francisco Saturday on foot for New Mexico. The priests plan to arrive at the Trinity site on Aug. 9, the 60th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki, Japan.

[GuyJean]

Like say, the UK bombings?

Are you talking about the recent Tube bombings?

Oh, didn't see your question; Yes.

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

KA-KA-KABOOM!

Man held for bringing 25 sticks of dynamite into Wakayama hospital
Japantoday > crime, Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 09:34 JST
WAKAYAMA ---A 70-year-old man in Gobo, Wakayama Prefecture was arrested Sunday for possessing 25 sticks of dynamite on the premises of a hospital where he had received treatment. The suspect, identified as Miichiro Yamashita, was quoted by police as saying medical staff had refused to administer him an injection that he had requested....more...

[Greji]

KA-KA-KABOOM!

Man held for bringing 25 sticks of dynamite into Wakayama hospital
Japantoday > crime, Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 09:34 JST
WAKAYAMA ---A 70-year-old man in Gobo, Wakayama Prefecture was arrested Sunday for possessing 25 sticks of dynamite on the premises of a hospital where he had received treatment. ..."

I'm sure they would have got a bang out of that! This is interesting in the light of the opinion of certain people that terrorists could not operate or conduct activites in Japan. But, the alarming availability and access to dynamite through construction firms and other sources, does not make this so unfeasible.

Granted that the police in the publised cases have always been able to track down where the dynamite has come from, this might not be very comforting or mean a lot to you, if the dude as just stuffed it up your bum!

[dimwit]

On the topic of Kaboom. Hereis where you can find all sorts of expensive souvenirs to repel your Japanese associates with.

[AssKissinger]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=7&u=/ap/20050727/ap_on_re_as/japan_a_bomb_vandalism

A suspected right-wing extremist vandalized a memorial for the victims of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, scraping off a reference to Japan's war effort as a mistake, officials and news reports said Wednesday.

[Greji]

On the topic of Kaboom. Hereis where you can find all sorts of expensive souvenirs to repel your Japanese associates with.

Don't need any. Just walk the office around with your fly open.

[AssKissinger]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050808/8atomic.htm

While there's no doubt that the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima 60 years ago profoundly changed the world, it's less clear than ever that it was the decisive measure it has long been portrayed to be. In a recent book, Racing the Enemy, which draws on Russian, American, and Japanese archives, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a professor of history at the University of California-Santa Barbara, argues that it was the Soviet Union's declaration of war on August 9 that ultimately prompted Japan's August 15 surrender. That move dashed the hopes of Tokyo hard-liners that the imperial house could be preserved and that unconditional surrender--as demanded by the Allies--could be avoided. "The official history of the Japanese imperial headquarters states very laconically that the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki didn't have any influence on the outcome of the surrender debate," says Hasegawa, whose book is one of the first to make a detailed study of the political interplay among the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States in 1945. "Japan had already suffered massive destruction greater than that caused by the atomic bomb, and the leadership was more concerned with the final status of the emperor than civilian casualties."

[Buraku]

it shortened the war ?

and ENslaved lives -
Tokyo Disney lando
Hallo Kitty
McDonarudo hambah-gah and fries ?



Look at Japan now, dire birth rates, over-shadowed by China and a stagnant economy


However something had to be done back in WW2
kamikazes were bent on their own destruction

[Taro Toporific]

U.S. atomic bombs were "God's gift": Japanese navy minister
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The U.S. atomic bombings and the Soviet Union's entry into World War II that led to Japan's surrender were "God's gifts," the Japanese navy minister at that time was quoted saying in documents released Friday by the National Security Archive.
Mitsumasa Yonai told an adviser to the Japanese ruling elite that the two events provided a good excuse to surrender at a time when local hostility to Emperor Hirohito and his government was increasing rapidly.
The conversation was among the first published complete translations from the Japanese of accounts of key high level meetings and discussions in Tokyo leading to the end of the war, the archive said...more...

[AssKissinger]

http://www.killsometime.com/Video/Video.asp?ID=489