{"id":4641,"date":"2008-08-06T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/06\/in-memoriam\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:11:14","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4641","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hiroshima.jpg\" title=\"hiroshima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hiroshima.jpg\" alt=\"hiroshima.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"195\" height=\"266\" hspace=\"3\" \/><\/a>63 years ago today, at 9:15 a.m. local time, the United States of America dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. A radio broadcast out of Japan said of the attack, &#8220;Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death.&#8221; Three days later, on August 9, the U.S. dropped a plutonium-based atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombings killed roughly 140,000 people immediately, and another 160,000 would ultimately die from the effects of radiation.<\/p>\n<p>They were the first, and mercifully, only atomic weapons ever used in war. Though the United States and Soviet Union would ultimately engage in nuclear brinksmanship during the latter half of the twentieth century, no country since has fired a nuclear weapon in anger.<\/p>\n<p>The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was horiffic, and though it was not necessarily more horiffic than an invasion of Japan might have been, it was most certainly one of the low points in humanity&#8217;s history &#8212; several of which were hit during World War II. Do not forget the 300,000 who died in the attacks, and never forget that even the just wars have moments where horrible evil is done in the name of good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>63 years ago today, at 9:15 a.m. local time, the United States of America dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. A radio broadcast out of Japan said of the attack, &#8220;Practically all living things, human and animal, were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}