In elementary school I learned shadows were burned into stone and wood by the atomic bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Hiroshima, what we would now call ‘fake news’ proliferated among the survivors. by rodin » 07 Feb 2012 22:36 . It was the first big lie.

At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.

General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the bomb, testified: “There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis.” The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Truman voiced his satisfaction with the “overwhelming success” of “the experiment”.Since 1945, the United States is believed to have been on the brink of using nuclear weapons at least three times.

Not all though.Check the list of photographers. Iran is the current “threat”.


Hiroshima shadows should be lighter than surrounding surface if they shielded radiation.



His foreign policy colleagues were eager “to browbeat the Russians with the bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip”. Human Shadow Etched in Stone was originally part of the stone steps at the entrance of the Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank, located 260 meters from ground zero.The bank was built in 1928. It has been named after pilot Colonel Paul Tibbett’s “courageous red-haired mother”. But such has been the mantra of this media “fact” that in his recent, obsequious performance before the Israeli parliament, Gordon Brown alluded to it as he threatened Iran, yet again.This progression of lies has brought us to one of the most dangerous nuclear crises since 1945, because the real threat remains almost unmentionable in western establishment circles and therefore in the media.



By continuing to use this site you agree to the use of cookies. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there.

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guestPacific War: Tokyo & Japan fire-bombed - 6 & 9 Aug 1945 - Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuke & radiation mythsShadows are only dark when the source radiation is switched on.

Some heard that the city would be uninhabitable for 75 years.


"In Hiroshima I was prepared for radically different sights. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to get more of it. Catching war criminals is fashionable again. It was dotted with charred trees and telephone poles. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.History is saturated with creepy photographs that vary from As photography was still rare, the death of a family member was often the first time a family considered taking a portrait. The idea that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “firebombed” and that no nuclear weapons were used against them, because no such weapons even exist to his day, can be dismissed out of hand as arrant nonsense.


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