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Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945
Posted on 06 August 2008 by Kevin
Today in history, on this day August 6, 1945, U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima Japan killing over 80,000 and injuring tens of thousands more.
President Harry Truman made the decision to end the war because Japan had not unconditionally surrendered.
Truman felt that a prolonged war with Japan and our allies having to fight them on the mainland would cause mass casualties, so at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time the bomb was dropped.
The name of the atom bomb was called “Little Boy,” and a subsequent bomb named “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki Japan a short while later.
Over 60,000 more Japanese would die from radiation fallout within a year’s time from the first blast.
Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who worked on the bomb quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita.
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another.”
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