El NYT ofrece su periódico completo del 7 de agosto de 1945 con la noticia del lanzamiento de la bomba sobre Hiroshima.
After Hiroshima, @nytimes proclaims devastating details of the dawn of the atomic age. http://t.co/5a84WbICag pic.twitter.com/DnYsG1qtw8
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) August 6, 2015
The Guardian cuenta con una guía visual (con fotos y gráficos) sobre Hiroshima y el inicio de la era nuclear.
—Five myths about the atomic bomb. The Washington Post. ¿Era la bomba nuclear la única alternativa a la invasión de Japón? ¿Por qué Kioto fue sacada de la lista de ciudades? ¿Se intentó intimidar a los soviéticos antes de que acabara la guerra? ¿Salvó la vida de centenares de miles de soldados norteamericanos que hubieran participado en la invasión de Japón?
—The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II. Recopilación de documentos históricos en The National Security Archive.
–McNamara recuerda la destrucción masiva sufrida por los bombardeos norteamericanos sobre las ciudades japoneses que no fueron Hiroshima o Nagasaki.
Y esto. https://t.co/vDErBxKUd3 La brutal reflexión de McNamara sobre la guerra Japón-USA, extracto de The Fog of War. #Hiroshima
— Verónica Calderón (@veronicalderon) agosto 6, 2015
—«Thank God for the atom bomb». Testimonios de soldados norteamericanos de la IIGM y el cálculo de lo que hubiera supuesto la invasión de Japón. En Okinawa, semanas antes de Hiroshima, 123.000 japoneses y norteamericanos murieron en los combates.
El origen del titular: «After Biak the enemy withdrew to deep caverns. Rooting them out became a bloody business which reached its ultimate horrors in the last months of the war. You think of the lives which would have been lost in an invasion of Japan’s home islands —a staggering number of Americans but millions more of Japanese— and you thank God for the atomic bomb».
–Debate ha reeditado en español ‘Hiroshima’, de John Hersey, el relato basado en los testimonios de seis supervivientes un año después y al que The New Yorker dedicó un número completo de la revista. En inglés comienza así.
«AT exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6th, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department at the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. At that same moment, Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital, overhanging one of the seven deltaic rivers which divide Hiroshima; Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor’s widow, stood by the window of her kitchen watching a neighbour tearing down his house because it lay in the path of an air-raid-defence fire lane; Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order’s three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city’s large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen for a Wassennann test in his hand; and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tammoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man’s house in Koi, the city’s western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer.»
Less known than Hiroshima-a book review: ‘Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War,’ by Susan Southard http://t.co/GmqhdtugVj
— Cold War Studies (@coldwarstudies) julio 28, 2015
—Las ciudades que se salvaron y las gentes que no. La pizarra de Yuri.
—Las imágenes prohibidas de Hiroshima. Guerra Eterna.
—Why Hollywood ignores Hiroshima. The Guardian.
Estimated bomb deaths from 1940 to 1941 London: 20,000 Warsaw: 25,800 Hamburg: 43,000 http://t.co/X3JoCsc813 pic.twitter.com/pB2P7Pxfhi
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 6, 2015
What it would look like if the #Hiroshima #bomb hit your city http://t.co/GuhMW3xhZ9 #History #WWII #Japan #nukes #war #nuclearweapons
— Guy Serbin (@drguyphd) agosto 6, 2015
‘White light/black rain: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’. Documental con el testimonio de 14 supervivientes y cuatro norteamericanos relacionados con los ataques.
