Hm. Agreed.. Overall that terrible war gave some nice experience to Humanity & perhaps we should thank Hitler & Hirohito for giving us this experience before the nuclear age has actually started.

P.S:
memento mori?

Memento mori - Latin for "remember you are mortal" or "remember you must die" i.e. we were given more than fine example of what could happen if we know that nuclear weapon can do big crater in the desert. Because I hardly doubt anyone expected all the sideeffects.

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I'm pretty sure those are accounted in the video. Anyway seems like I've forgot to add that while not good on its own, we can be quite happy that this was in the course of 50 years and not 50 seconds.

For a moment I thought you were referring to that retarded thing in... well, you might know what I'm referring to.

Anyway, I always found it a bit sad how the government told everyone to just duck under something in case of a nuclear attack. Like if that was going to prevent something.

Nope, I don't. Probably for the best

Sadly it's the only thing - apart from staring directly into the flash - you can do. Duck and cover and prey. If you are lucky^[1] you will survive the initial blast i.e. the heat and shock wave. If you are out of the vaporization zone there's a chance that you won't be buried under the debris in which case you could get out of there before it starts "snowing". This way you can get out with minimum irradiation coming just from the blast - how much depends on how far you are from the epicentre and how much things were in-between.

WTF. I never realized how much the USA loved testing those things! Remind me never to go to the desert!

Really? I've never heard anything about that, you'd think that such strong hatred for others would preserve and show itself even a little, sure they traditionally have strong feelings against their enemies, but I've never heard of anything racist that would lead to extermination.
I've read a lot about how japanese deny certain services to foreigners(which I think is ok since foreigners probably are ignorant of their customs which are very important) and say all kinds of racist things, but I know A LOT of people who have visited japan from time to time who haven't experienced such things .

The hatred for the japanese can still be felt in america where(according to wikipedia) 13% of the population wanted the total extermination of the japanese during the war 44. While I'm sure the figure has gone down significantly I know an american who knows several people who "don't like the japanese" and "hope they don't come here".

Then again, perhaps those who hate america is more of the silent type.

I unconsciously thought of you as an american because most people that say that are americans, but a lot of people who aren't americans also say that(like my dad) so I don't have a valid reason for thinking you're american. My thoughts of the statement in question quickly took over and it was never really about you even though I made it sound like it was.

Talking on a.cc is the almost the only speech training I get so forgive me for being bad at expressing myself.

I don't know anything about japans influence on the war, I never imagined them to be strong enought to conquer the world :S (btw didn't the USA have the upper hand?). I agree, someone had to be first, and "better them than us" is most of the time a good argument. But did anyone else have nukes? or even know about them?

Don't worry, there are times I don't express myself good as well.

At that time nobody, just the USA and only three of them. I'll try to express myself better - it was a lesson for the whole world. Thousands had to die or suffer greatly because of those two bombings, but without it, nobody in the whole world wouldn't knew exactly how scary nuclear weapons are. In my opinion that knowledge was a key to our survival, yet many people had to pay the price.

We don't get those foreign movies here. I guess they can't be that that good.

My understanding was that the USA basically wanted to stay out of WWII. Then Japan forced them into it with Pearl Harbor. Sometime thereafter the first nuclear bombs were ready. The USA allegedly gave the Japanese government an ultimatum, warning of the attack, but the Japanese told them to fuck off. First big boom. The USA apparently told them again to surrender and they refused. Second big boom. Surrender. I consider it a valid response.

I am unaware of any racism or hatred between the USA and Japan in modern day times. One could assume that some people feel it (as there are some racist assholes in all parts of the world), but I've never gotten the impression that it's a country-wide consensus. That would make me sad.

The USA seemed like the peaceful nation prior to WWII trying to stay out of the fight. Perhaps that's when they learned that staying out of it isn't an option for them. And they've been putting their boots in the rest of your asses ever since.

The OP's video doesn't really surprise me or frighten me much. I didn't realize that the numbers were in the thousands, but obviously those were mostly just controlled tests. The only actual attacks I know about are those first two in Japan.

What does frighten me are anti-American nations having nuclear weapons.

Well, there's certainly hate from Japan to USA. But what do you expect if they nuked your country My Japanese teacher told us something that happened to him when he was in Japan. He was walking in the city and some youngers started to insult him, thinking he was American. After he told them he was Spanish they went with him friendly and invited him to take some drink with them

You're right. Sorry. I'm not sure where I pulled Palestine out of.

Just these three words, make poor sense to me.. The U.S. isn't a person to want or not want something. There were people who did & those did not want the war. Those weapon manufacturers & bankers praised war, and the longer & the more global it is- the better.

Since there were like 2-3 days between these booms, and these weapons were literally new- it's absolute nonsense. There was not enough time given to realize what has happened after the first boom. Besides, as always- Manchurian offensive is ignored as their argument for a surrender.

Out of my current understanding of current state of things, Japan has this towards literally the rest of the world. Not specifically the U.S..

Uh?

Wiki: .. these figures are estimates, in some cases quite unreliable estimates.

Besides, as I stated above, it really stinks with upcoming bombings of Iranian nuclear objects this summer, why else would they drag their fleet & aircraft around.. & apply various embargoes vs Iran..

Nuclear armed Palestine is a good joke, really

There are rumors, and I won't be any surprised if it's tree- that many of'em went missing.... Nor will I be shocked to find out India Pakistan & North Korea had some use for'em. Just the numbers were really insane, 40 000+(most were in Russia obviously, but still) strategic warheads..

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Although, I doubt they would any bother sending it in waves or whatsover. Not until there are any real successful tests at interrupting a flat trajectory ballistic missile traveling 20 times the speed of some bullet.

When I went to Japan, they loved us. Especially the blond blue-eyed guy.

I don't think there's any real substantial hatred or disdain between either country.

Did you ever watch the scene in The Last Samurai where they were making a deal at the dinner table to have Aldridge train Japanese troops? So polite, yet conniving in their private conversation in Japanese. Don't get me wrong, I'm a gaijin rice chaser, but kitty has claws.