67th anniversary of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

[Bypah]

For those that forgot an event that changed history for ever....August 6th ,1945
The Enola Gay, a B-29 Super fortress bomber dropped the first atomic bombe over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. "Little Boy" as it was nicknamed was the firsy uranium bomb.
This was an article made in the 64th anniversary three years ago back in 2009.
The pictures say it all.

67 years ago....Please remember and lest we not forget....NEVER MORE!!!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... s_ago.html

[rationtin440]

Yes it was a terrible event, and many will agree that the innocent always suffer for the decisions of their leaders, and of course the debate will likely rage forever as to how close Japan and Germany were to having a bomb to use on us. What is frightening as well is that less than 20 years later, our technology made it so that bombs of this yield and larger could be modified into artillery shells, air-to-air and ground-to-air missiles, and even backpack versions to be employed by special forces and/or combat engineers to cause landslides, take out dams, and generally break things and make the rubble glow. The Japanese have been intimately aquainted with the horrific effects of the deliberate release of lethal radiation as well as the horrific tragedies of the recent natural disasters, but they carry on.