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General Groves and others promoted the idea that the Japanese were using the effects of the bomb as anti-American propaganda. So, the people of Japan, other than the people in the cities directly affected, didnt know for years what was happening in their own country. There was medical censorship as well. Physicians working with the survivors werent allowed to publish studies or findings of what was happening.
They also didnt want the decision to use the bombs to be challenged in the U.S., by books like John Herseys Hiroshima. So President Truman and the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, made a concerted effort to publish articles justifying the use of the bombs, excluding any information about what happened to the people beneath the atomic clouds.
The justifications were so airtight that they became the dominant way of perceiving the decision to use the bombs on Japan: that the two bombs ended the war and saved a million American lives.
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Taniguchi was 16 years old at the time. He was delivering mail in the northwestern part of the valley on his bicycle. He was facing away from the blast a little over a mile away. He was thrown off his bicycle and although he didnt know it at the time, because he was in a daze, his entire back was burned off. He also had severe burns on his arms and legs.
The earth was shaking but he was able to stand up. He gathered the mail he could still see. All the children that had been playing around him were dead. He wandered to a factory and some men carried him to a hillside where they laid him on his stomach. He lay there for two nights, dipping in and out of consciousness, while his grandfather searched for him.
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General Groves and others promoted the idea that the Japanese were using the effects of the bomb as anti-American propaganda. So, the people of Japan, other than the people in the cities directly affected, didnt know for years what was happening in their own country. There was medical censorship as well. Physicians working with the survivors werent allowed to publish studies or findings of what was happening.
They also didnt want the decision to use the bombs to be challenged in the U.S., by books like John Herseys Hiroshima. So President Truman and the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, made a concerted effort to publish articles justifying the use of the bombs, excluding any information about what happened to the people beneath the atomic clouds.
The justifications were so airtight that they became the dominant way of perceiving the decision to use the bombs on Japan: that the two bombs ended the war and saved a million American lives.
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Taniguchi was 16 years old at the time. He was delivering mail in the northwestern part of the valley on his bicycle. He was facing away from the blast a little over a mile away. He was thrown off his bicycle and although he didnt know it at the time, because he was in a daze, his entire back was burned off. He also had severe burns on his arms and legs.
The earth was shaking but he was able to stand up. He gathered the mail he could still see. All the children that had been playing around him were dead. He wandered to a factory and some men carried him to a hillside where they laid him on his stomach. He lay there for two nights, dipping in and out of consciousness, while his grandfather searched for him.
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How 5 People Survived Nagasaki’s Nuclear Hell (Original Post)
Capt. Obvious
Aug 2015
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elias49
(4,259 posts)1. Bookmarked. Thanks Capt. nt
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)2. I used to work with a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing
He was 1 year old at the time. His 4-year-old sister, who was outside playing at the time, was vaporized. His house, which was about 1 mile from Ground Zero, collapsed, and his neighbors had to dig him and his mother out of the rubble. His brother, who was off on a school field trip on the day of the bombing, came back to a scene right out of Dante's Inferno. It took several days for his brother to be reunited with the remaining members of his family.