Him: You have not seen anything
of Hiroshima. Nothing.
She: I've seen everything. Everything ...
-Alain Resnais, Hiroshima mon amour .
1. The B29, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima city BOUT, in 1945, was best known among the crew as the Enola Gay. Was named to his flight leader, Colonel Tibbets, because his mother's maiden named Enola Gay Haggard, born gidda, Iowa
When Tibbets wanted to be an aviator, his family opposed it, with the natural exception of his mother who encouraged him in his wishes. The four-ton bomb was christened with the name of Little Boy. Forebee through his viewfinder, he located the target at 8 hours, 13 minutes, 30 seconds. As a responsible bomber had hit the nail on the release button in case the synchronized mechanism will not work. Poc Earlier, Parsons had gotten into the pipe bomb thrower and his assistant while Jeppson that lit up and passed him tools, introduced with great care, the detonating explosive charge in the tail of Little Boy, and put in a position to double connection device. At that time, Jake Baser asleep. And in the end he had no need to press the button Forebee dejection: 8 hours, 15 minutes, 17 seconds, the floodgates opened outside of the pipe bomber and ingenuity began to sink in the air like a diver and masterfully perfect stretched.
At 8 hours 16 minutes caused the explosion.
2. For 60 years, since the August 6, 1945, a beautiful flying Superfortress evacuated its deadly payload on the ordinary people, not military, the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The civilian death toll was estimated weeks after killing in a l50 thousand. Later, predictably, there were thousands of others who had a long death or mutilated survivors.
Viewed with hindsight, the bombing exterminator suggests several reflections that especially in recent years have to do with the killing of civilians in wars, or institutional anarchist terrorism and the madness of science : How is it possible that the talent of humanity has come up with a formula that could extinguish the planet?
Fedor Dostoyevsky said: "I do not see the difference between killing a man from a desktop, by signing a document, or kill with an ax."
Why is not terrorism bellísma the performance of a war machine, a marvel of human engineering, a metal sculpture that flies like a star, whose uniformed driver released their bombs without seeing the results or their victims?
very conservative calculations, obviously manipulated estimate civilian deaths in Iraq so far of the invasion, not war, because for there to fight requires two opposing armies, reaching 26 000 and totaling tens of thousands more men, women and children who were maimed. But this walking
killing civilians, not soldiers and was commonplace in the second world war. The British and Americans, U.S. or gringos, killing at least 220 000 noncombatant civilians in the German city of Dresden. Bomb-strewn cities. Terrified. And did not lack justification because Hitler also had bombed London. Henrique González Casanova
used to read us in journalism writing class (in Political Science from the UNAM) one of the most heartbreaking books have been written about the slaughter of 6 August 1945: Hiroshima, the American journalist John Hersey. A year after the bomb, in August 1946, Hersey visited Hiroshima and spoke to some survivors. His report took the full number of the magazine The New Yorker one month later and since then is considered a masterpiece of journalism of all time.
As you know, the feeling of guilt was strong among Americans because, in truth the White House policy, the atomic bomb on two Japanese cities ended with a war that was sure to continue and in which, as only land invasion of Japan would die between 100 thousand and a million U.S. soldiers. The political criteria, the reason of state, was like many other times in history have to sacrifice a few lives to save more lives.
When he met with Stalin and Churchill, Harry S. Truman felt necessary to inform that his country "had a new weapon of extraordinary destructive force." Cold War began. Not a few officials, like William Leahy, chief of staff of Roosevelt, argued that the bomb did not represent "any substantial assistance in our war against Japan." They say they later retracted, but General Eisenhower left word out there that the bomb was not justified because by that time "Japan was already defeated."
had not the slightest importance that Japan was already predisposed to total surrender. The war in the Pacific began to be history and what Truman cared about was the new geopolitics. He did not want to waste the time to make a show of force with the pump, but not Japan, that did not matter, but the Soviet Union. For that many people were killed.
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