Comments on: Nagasaki’s Nuke was Supposed to be Dropped on Kokura

By: tropixblue

tropixblue — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:00:42 +0000

I went to the memorial services on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 2008, http://tropix-blue.blogspot.com/2008/10/hiroshima-1945.html

By: John

John — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:08:03 +0000

I visited Hiroshima August 6th 2008 on the anniversary of the first Atomic bomb dropped on an entire civilian population. Google tropixblue, Hiroshima.

By: progressive reading glasses

progressive reading glasses — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:16:06 +0000

Kind of sad story. How did the men could build such a weapon…?

By: jerry delavega

jerry delavega — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:06:59 +0000

I would love to learn the “different story” that Ben speaks of above.

By: Tae

Tae — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:25:32 +0000

“And custom or not, I bet in every city of any size, there are always people “making love” somewhere”

Hahahaha

By: Michael Graham Richard

Michael Graham Richard — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:12:37 +0000

Matthew,

Point taken. My goal was not to pretend that war-time Japan was a wonderful paradise and that outside forces tried to destroy it. I was just trying to picture people living their every day lives unaware that they came so close to nuclear annihilation.

If their every day lives were really bad on top of that, it just makes it even worse.

And custom or not, I bet in every city of any size, there are always people “making love” somewhere

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:22:51 +0000

“People were doing their laundry, going to work, making love while plans were made”.

Lovely imagery, but far from the actual truth of near starvation and forced labor to produce armaments and materials for the Japanese war machine. It’s also not traditionally Japanese custom to “make love” during daylight hours.

By: Joel Embry

Joel Embry — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:18:01 +0000

Mr. Richard:

I can tell you as someone who’s father was a American Prisoner fo War in the hell hole known as Fukuoka #3 located several thousand yards from Kokura drop zone and who would not be alive today if not for the alternate distruction of Nagasaki I felt tickled pink:)

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:26:30 +0000

I remember reading a biography of the founder of Toyota, and it mentioned that he was stationed in Kokura that day. He knew what happened, and how lucky he was to survive.

By: Michael Graham Richard

Michael Graham Richard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:27:47 +0000

You’re right, of course. I usually always have sources. I guess I was on a roll with that post and hit “publish” more quickly than usual.

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:04:39 +0000

Great! Thanks.

Next time source in the article!

By: Michael Graham Richard

Michael Graham Richard — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:19:03 +0000

My original source, where I first learned about this, was in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Online it is mentioned in these places, among others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokura

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE0DC133AF934A3575BC0A963958260

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8877842/

http://www.dannen.com/decision/handy.html

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:49:46 +0000

(in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:49:25 +0000

No source, nothing? I’ve been to all three cities, and visited the museums in both, and the US documents they have under glass cases there tell a pretty different story.