Video: Tokyo nuclear attack
06 Aug 2006
Here’s something to watch in commemoration of this dark day in history — a video showing Tokyo under nuclear attack. The video was pieced together using footage from a 1984 NHK documentary about nuclear war, which showed a high-tech (at the time), Godzillaesque simulation of what happens to Tokyo when nuked by an 8-megaton bomb. The soundtrack is Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War” (1982) as performed by Yo La Tengo (2002). Despite the outdated special effects, the message is pretty timeless: a nuclear weapon can really screw up your city. Seriously, wouldn’t it be great if our governments could find a way to eliminate the need for these things? Peace.
[Link: Video of Tokyo nuclear attack]
The “dark day in history” was when Japan chose to join the Axis powers in a bid to take over the world. It is unfortunate that destruction of this magnitude was required to convince Imperial Japan that they were thoroughly outgunned, but Japan was not the victim, they were the aggressor. Nothing can ever change that fact.
the wife and I were watching a CBC Newsworld docu-flick on Hiroshima; scenes like the mother having to stand by the flames engulfing her preschool daughter, even if true … “how could THEY do such terrible things to people?”
But tell me, to the child running screaming body burning from white-hot phosphorous stuck to their skin that burns even in water, to the village turned into living Hell by the cutsey-named Daisy-Cutter, wtf is the difference? They show you Hiroshima as a straw dog, easy to hate but so long ago, easy to forget. It makes you feel superior, enlightened to know that was then and this is now. They don’t show you the rocket they shot this morning, sandwich-sized yellow packets of death scattered in the playgrounds, or the full effects of a single Uranium bullet that can rip off an arm a mile away.
Sure, the Japanese imperialists were the aggressors and the army committed untold atrocities. They had to be stopped. But I don’t see how that justifies dropping a nuclear weapon on what was mostly a civilian population. By “aggressors”, do you mean all the kids and old women and pets that were killed in Hiroshima? If Japan had dropped a nuclear weapon on a US city, it would have been considered a crime against humanity. The US military does it and it’s OK (unfortunate, but justified) because they win the war.
Napalm, daisy cutters, phosphorous, depleted uranium, cluster bombs… take your pick. They’re all WMD, no matter who uses them…
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AVOID NUCLEAR FIGHT THINK BEYOND PERSONAL , POLTICAL BENEFITS
IF NUCLEAR POLLUTION DESTROY EARTH THEN WHERE WILL WE GO ?
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NUCLEAR WAR CAN BE A METHOD TO PURGE WHICH JIHADISTS FIND MOST INTERESTING BECAUSE THEY CAN DROP IT ANYWHERE AND NOT WORRY ABOUT GETTING ANYTHING SENT BAK AT THEM BCUS THEY CANT BE TARGETED LIKE A COUNTRY WHICH IS WHY THEY MUST BE STOPPED. YES I AM AN AMERICAN IF U HAVENT NOTICED