The annual Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony was held today. Learn more about the government’s efforts to pay tribute to the deceased and pass their stories to future generations: https://t.co/d9pLDsyEre #NagasakiNationalPeaceMemorialHall pic.twitter.com/IdCClQLNuc
— The Gov't of Japan (@JapanGov) August 9, 2019
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a "world without nuclear weapons" as Japan marked the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki pic.twitter.com/QCGFjcehbK
— Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc) August 9, 2019
#Nagasaki marks 74th anniversary of atomic bombing#Nagasaki pic.twitter.com/dbMVom6pHg
— Ruptly (@Ruptly) August 9, 2019
#OTD in 1945 this US dropped a 2nd atomic bomb known as "Fat Man" on Japan and destroyed part of Nagasaki. Here is Movietone's report on the events. https://t.co/Mqc3BIGrLA #MovietoneMoments pic.twitter.com/M7MHPhYByb
— AP Archive (@AP_Archive) August 9, 2019
The country was destroyed with the death of humanity in the year of 1945.#NagasakiDay #HiroshimaDay #MintShint #MintyFresh #darkdayinhistory #india #japan #worldwar2 pic.twitter.com/XlBLL2RMtP
— MintShint (@LetsMintShint) August 9, 2019
"Something that no human being should ever experience again."
Meet Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bomb pic.twitter.com/makMD9iB68
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 9, 2019
#ThisDayInHistory | Three days after dropping an atomic bomb on #Hiroshima, US dropped another one on #Nagasaki, Japan on Aug 9, 1945#NagasakiDay pic.twitter.com/6KkBxYO9zn
— CNBC-TV18 News (@CNBCTV18News) August 9, 2019
On this day in 1945, the U.S. drops a second atom bomb on Japan. The 21-kiloton weapon explodes over Nagasaki at 11:02 am local time. pic.twitter.com/GuC7XfMtfP
— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) August 9, 2019
The atomic cloud over Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, taken 15+ minutes after the explosion, seen from a distance of 15 km. pic.twitter.com/jrkew4pgvq
— Ｈｉｓｔｏｒｙ (@HistoryTime_) August 9, 2019
On this day in 1945 an atomic bomb exploded over #Nagasaki in Japan. More than 74,000 were killed instantly.
Kyoto, the cultural capital, had been the original target, but that changed shortly before ‘Fat Man’ was dropped on the city. pic.twitter.com/X8LCmdbXZY
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) August 9, 2019
Today is the Nagasaki Bomb Commemoration. Last May at Nagasaki, near the Memorial, I had the incredible opportunity to meet M. Inosuke Hayasaki, survivor of the bomb. He was 14. Here is his story on a business card. #NagasakiDay pic.twitter.com/hzeLe18mah
— Florian Richoux (@FloRicx) August 9, 2019
On this day in 1945 a 2nd US atomic bomb destroyed #Nagasaki.
This #NagasakiDay, check out https://t.co/HnSZZzzqeX's 'portraits of first, second and third generation [A-bomb suriviors]. Each participant offers a testimony & a handwritten message for future generations.' @CNDuk
— CND Peace Education (@CNDPeaceEd) August 9, 2019
Never forget today when as many as 100,000 were killed by the nuclear bomb dropped on #Nagasaki.
A staggering 340,000 were killed by the bombs on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki.#Nagasaki won't be the last unless all nuclear weapons are abolished. #NeverAgain pic.twitter.com/s33HvOEHyL
— CND (@CNDuk) August 9, 2019
74 years ago today, the atomic bomb known as 'Fat Man' was dropped on #Nagasaki. It killed between 40,000 and 75,000 people instantly, and wounded 65,000 more. On this horrific anniversary, we remember the words of Bertrand Russell. pic.twitter.com/gpGv5ViVug
— Humanists UK (@Humanists_UK) August 9, 2019
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. A clock from Nagasaki, Japan, stopped at the time the atomic bomb dropped #OTD in 1945. pic.twitter.com/GRN5xKWt3H
— Professor Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) August 9, 2019
"Emergencies can only be resolved by people working together across our globe, reaching out our hands to one another in warm embrace. There is no room for a nuclear weapon in an embrace"
We continue to work to rid the world of nuclear weapons #NagasakiDay https://t.co/immOhzV9v6
— Quakers in Britain (@BritishQuakers) August 9, 2019
Today is the 74th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic weapon attack. Our NFLA & Mayors for Peace member Leeds held a moving ceremony to remember it. Here is the Deputy Leader of Leeds City Council Cllr James Lewis speaking at it. #NagasakiDay pic.twitter.com/4nGrQlSbgZ
— UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (@NFLAUKandI) August 9, 2019
Minister Okada from the Japanese Embassy, prior to the annual Hiroshima Day Service in Coventry Cathedral. On the 74th anniversary of the A-bomb we remember the suffering of the people #Hiroshima #Nagasaki
We must learn from the lessons of yesterday to build a better tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/zXh9UqLcrm— Birmingham J&P (@BhamJandP) August 7, 2019
That 9 August, 1945 should be last time a nuclear weapon is ever used. Nagasaki, Japan & world remember. Ireland pays respects & joins call for elimination of nuclear weapons. @DisarmamentIRL @simoncoveney @irishmissionun @IrelandUNGeneva @GlobalIreland @UNUniversity @INakamitsu pic.twitter.com/j4ghhebu6p
— Ireland in Japan (@IrishEmbJapanEN) August 9, 2019
A sobering privilege to witness the #Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony on behalf of the Netherlands: remembering those who suffered & perished due to the atomic bomb dropped on 9 August 1945 at 11:02 74 years ago. The second & hopefully last one used in anger. #NagasakiDay pic.twitter.com/1jMwrjUWEh
— Henry Philippens (@HenryLPH) August 9, 2019
Today is Hiroshima & Nagasaki Day in the @CityofToronto. This day serves as a memorial to those who died in the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, while reminding us about the devastating effects of atomic warfare. pic.twitter.com/IRSdp52HL1
— John Tory (@JohnTory) August 6, 2019
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For more than 70 years the Hibakusha (survivors) of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remind us of the inhumanity of nuclear weapons. We honour them with our continued efforts for the #nuclearban and a #nuke -free world.
— MFA Austria (@MFA_Austria) August 6, 2019
On this day in 1945, the Soviet Union declares war on Japan. Moscow's announcement coincides with the bombing of Nagasaki. pic.twitter.com/rmn47TuTQq
— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) August 9, 2019
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On Aug 9, 1945, the US dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Ruthless, cold blooded murder of 100,000 civilians. But Americans endlessly cry about Tiananmen Square. Fu*king Hypocrisy and Imperialism go hand in hand#history #FlashbackFriday #FridayThoughts pic.twitter.com/kH5xSc9h3B
— Economics Geopolitics Tech (@EconGeopolTech) August 9, 2019
74 years of the #Nagasaki bombing: a damaged Virgin in the rebuilt Urakami Cathedral.
May all the faithful departed rest in Peace. pic.twitter.com/ChBtVyPpUE
— Rorate Caeli (@RorateCaeli) August 9, 2019
Today in 1945, a 21-kiloton bomb was dropped over Nagasaki.
60,000 – 70,000 people were killed that year. By 1950, the the death toll had risen to 140,000.
Its effects are still being felt today.
We must never allow nuclear weapons to be used again. pic.twitter.com/rIf4P9hY1o
— ICRC (@ICRC) August 9, 2019
74 years ago today, the city of #Nagasaki was wiped out by a nuclear bomb.
Over 70,000 people were killed.
Since then and to this day, thousands of survivors have suffered and died from effects of radiation exposure.Today we say #NeverAgain #nuclearban #humanity pic.twitter.com/lusnFXQ3E7
— Kathleen Lawand (@klawandICRC) August 9, 2019
Please, let this be the last time a #nuclear bomb is used. 74 yrs ago today some 40,000 people were killed instantly when a bomb levelled the city of #Nagasaki, Japan
Photos: @ICRC pic.twitter.com/tQTIy9RTw2— Australian Red Cross (@RedCrossAU) August 8, 2019
Today, the world remembers Nagasaki and the thousands of lives destroyed or forever changed by the nuclear weapon dropped on the city on August 9th, 1945 at 11:02am. Follow @Peace_boat & @HibakushaAppeal for updates from the Peace Ceremony. #Neveragain #NagasakiDay #nuclearban pic.twitter.com/jQ0buRViAU
— ICAN (@nuclearban) August 9, 2019
Dignified peace and nuclear free advocate and Labor legend Tom Uren was a POW when #Nagasaki was bombed. This is his story.
Ours is to advance the UN @nuclearban.
Our best way to get rid of our worst weapons. Never again @AlboMP pic.twitter.com/LMqJWoqcRQ— Dave Sweeney (@NukeDaveSweeney) August 8, 2019
Footage of the mushroom cloud after the atomic bomb "Fat Man" exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945. #WW2 pic.twitter.com/bjIfuGXejb
— WWII Pictures (@WWIIpix) August 9, 2019
Not only is this piece littered with bad analogies and flawed assumptions, but publishing a piece called “The US Needs More Nukes” on the 74th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing is damn near sociopathic. https://t.co/eQPLvhn6ax
— Matt Korda (@mattkorda) August 10, 2019
Jean Stokan represented the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas today at a Nonviolent Witness Commemorating the 74th Anniversary of the U.S. Nuclear Bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki.
Jean is pictured presenting flowers to Ms. Michiko Kodama, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. pic.twitter.com/X5C8fIlIAc
— Sisters of Mercy (@SistersofMercy) August 9, 2019
The US adopted many aspects of the British air strategy, as demonstrated in the firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo and, later, in the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. US acknowledgement that bombing civilians constituted a war crime disappeared after 1940. pic.twitter.com/iViJEWJyHs
— 66th (@mixedforestzone) August 8, 2019
Seventy four years after the bombings on #Hiroshima & #Nagasaki, the imperialist warmongering policy, the #US withdrawal from international treaties, the manufacturing of new weapons and the threat of a new arms race undermine peace and security of all. pic.twitter.com/QUc2B8nSlP
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) August 9, 2019
It's #NagasakiDay, so please listen to @philtalkradio's recent episode with @DanielEllsberg about the ethics of planning for #nuclear doomsday – now streaming at https://t.co/Qo1tfLw6cU. pic.twitter.com/c34tuGL4Pm
— Devon Strolovitch (@FogCityBlues) August 9, 2019
A Point Zero Cenotaph in #Nagasaki as today we remember 74th anniversary of a Nuclear bomb explosion. #NeverAgain #NagasakiDay
Video made with @googleearth Studio software. pic.twitter.com/nOgodhGyNM
— Jošt Hobič (@jost_hobic) August 9, 2019
I’m old enough to remember it. And that day was just the…grimmest day I can remember. Then came something even worse: the bombing of #Nagasaki, mainly to try to test a new weapon design –
These are real horror stories.#Chomsky#FatMan#AtomicBomb#NagasakiDay#PlutoniumBomb pic.twitter.com/iA3E1UM9Dd— Chomsky Quotes (@quotes_chomsky) August 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/beetle83553661/status/1159557646548004865
HR @INakamitsu delivered SGs words to Nagasaki Peace Ceremony, galvanizing states to work towards enhancing cooperation, trust & transparency, foundation for true dialogue
"The only true guarantee against use of nuclear weapons is their total elimination"https://t.co/M2wPWAICZp pic.twitter.com/OX7QhCwNFx— ODA (@UN_Disarmament) August 9, 2019
Yoshiro Yamawaki is now reading the Pledge for Peace on behalf of the atomic bomb survivors at the #Nagasaki Peace Ceremony. pic.twitter.com/GxngPnc4rl
— Hibakusha Appeal (@HibakushaAppeal) August 9, 2019
One of the few canard fighter prototypes of the war. On this day 1945, the Shinden flies. Ominously two further test flights of the Shinden coincides with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. pic.twitter.com/tcyILEjbQa
— Chris Bolton (@CcibChris) August 6, 2019
74 years ago, on August 9, 1945, the US dropped a #nuclearweapon on #Nagasaki. Today, we commemorate #NagasakiDay and honor the victims and survivors by recommitting to prevent that atrocity from ever happening again. Find a commemoration event near you: https://t.co/MXEduflHVH pic.twitter.com/VT1kxvYTex
— PSR Nuclear Weapons Abolition (@PSRnuclear) August 9, 2019
As I wrote for @TPM 4 years ago, #NagasakiDay offers a vital opportunity to push past narratives of American exceptionalism or "good wars" & consider the realities of war & violence that implicate all nations, & should inform our present & future actions.https://t.co/8GwmV2LSEi
— Ben Railton (@AmericanStudier) August 9, 2019
At this moment 74 years ago—11:02am August 9, local time—"Fat Man” (a 21-kiloton implosion-type atomic bomb) exploded ~1,650 feet over Nagasaki, killing at least 40,000 men, women, and children and injuring some 60,000 more. It missed its intended aim point by 1.3 miles. pic.twitter.com/MAXyKXShd7
— Stephen Schwartz (@AtomicAnalyst) August 9, 2019
On this day in 1945, Nagasaki was A-bombed. Last year, on SGT Report, we discussed how events like the atomic bombing of Japan and 9/11 constitute satanic rituals; the Rothschild-Israeli obsession with nuclear weapons; and evidence of their use on 9/11.https://t.co/GO2UpWUWFj
— James Perloff (@jamesperloff) August 9, 2019
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on #Hiroshima and three days later, on #Nagasaki. 74 years later, nuclear weapons are still a real threat to humanity's existence – and the threat of nuclear war is increasing. Tell our leaders, never again. https://t.co/rXQIXwU09X pic.twitter.com/o2AEUtgVMz
— Union of Concerned Scientists (@UCSUSA) August 6, 2019
Call to support 9 August as 'International Day of US Crimes against Humanity'. On that day in 1945, the #USA military dropped its second #nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of #Nagasaki. Detail and links here: https://t.co/CZPk3NdU2h pic.twitter.com/msPCTJLqzJ
— tim anderson (@timand2037) August 7, 2019
Atomic attack in 1945 killed almost 240,0000 people in just two cities Hiroshima & Nagasaki.#IndiaStopPushingNuclearWar pic.twitter.com/8Q2Qjb1cdG
— Global Politics (@Globalpoliticss) August 9, 2019
If you ever think your day is unlucky, just remember this. There was once a man on a business trip to Hiroshima who survived the atomic blast there only to go home to Nagasaki to be greeted by yet another atomic bomb. That man is Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He lived to the ripe age of 93.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) August 11, 2019
August 9, 1945, when America dropped the second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki in Japan and changed the history of the world.#NagasakiDay #hiroshima #WorldWar2 #nuclearweapons pic.twitter.com/mUYhr9Axvi
— WittyFeed (@WittyFeed) August 9, 2019
On this day in 1945, Tokyo is in ruins following an overnight incendiary raid by American B-29s. As many as 100,000 have perished in the inferno — more than either the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombings. It will be remembered as history's deadliest air attack. pic.twitter.com/64yRtqo7rw
— Military History Now (@MilHistNow) March 10, 2019
Some numbers for tomorrow. 58,000 deaths on one side in one day in a single battle is hard to get your head around. Maybe only Hiroshima & Nagasaki exceed that? pic.twitter.com/pL7teWUdBK
— Mat Oxley (@matoxley) November 10, 2018
"Let Nagasaki & Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day" — @antonioguterres during a visit to Japan this week https://t.co/0WZunupXU0 pic.twitter.com/EmFjzxskG8
— United Nations (@UN) August 12, 2018
#Nagasaki marks 74 years since US atomic bombing pic.twitter.com/XoGc6KicZ2
— RT (@RT_com) August 10, 2019
#Nagasaki marks 74 years since US atomic bombing pic.twitter.com/cWBH50MGDO
— RT (@RT_com) August 9, 2019
As I mentioned in my Nagasaki thread, he doesn't seem to have known that the Nagasaki attack was pending — he seems to have thought there was more time between the first and second uses of the bomb. Again, the source of that confusion seems traceable to a telegram at Potsdam: pic.twitter.com/q95cFI6gK0
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 10, 2019
Hiroshima happened on August 6, 1945. Nagasaki on August 9th. And on August 10th, 1945, General Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, sent President Truman a memo stating that a THIRD attack on Japan could occur in about a week, sooner than had been expected. pic.twitter.com/J45OaWO9Iz
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 10, 2019
I've posted two (unexpectedly) popular tweetstorms on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki "anniversaries," so let me post one more short one today on an important event that happened 74 years ago today that is generally much lesser known, but JUST as important. THREAD
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 10, 2019
Anyway, the most important consequence of Nagasaki, in my opinion, was that it greatly disturbed Truman. He had just gotten the casualty reports from Hiroshima and was already unnerved. He didn't know another bombing was going to happen so quickly. His attitude quickly soured.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
I think one can come up with "plausible justifications" for Hiroshima, even if they are debatable. Nagasaki is definitely a trickier moral issue, if your concern is with not slaughtering masses of civilians unnecessarily.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
Absence of evidence is not absence of effect, but it clearly wasn't a crucial part of it. The idea that the Japanese didn't believe that the US had more atomic bombs is mostly untrue. If Nagasaki hadn't happened, it seems likely that little would have changed regarding surrender.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
This was the same meeting where they decided to put forward an offer of conditional surrender (which the US rejected). There isn't any evidence that the Nagasaki attack changed anyone's point of view in that room.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
Separately, most Japanese archival evidence shows that the Nagasaki bombing did not materially have an effect on the Japanese high command, either. They learned about it during a meeting they were having to discuss Hiroshima and the Soviet invasion.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
Forecasts of bad weather pushed the Hiroshima date forward, and similarly pushed Nagasaki back, removing that interval. As a result, the Japanese high command were only just getting hearing of the reality of Hiroshima (they sent scientists) when the 2nd bombing mission started.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
The Army covered up the fact that the Nagasaki mission went wrong in many ways — compared to Hiroshima, it was tactically full of mishaps. They also put out the idea that Nagasaki was a super important target, and not a low-priority one added in haste.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
As a result, the bomb exploded over an entirely civilian area of north-western Nagasaki. The USAAF's own map of the damage makes it clear that the primary areas hit were filled with nothing but houses, schools, churches, and prisons. Ugh. pic.twitter.com/DXiXef2xrC
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
Nagasaki, by contrast, had already been bombed several times (conventionally) in WWII (most recently on August 1, 1945), was geographically unfavorable to blast effects, and was a far lower priority target in general — so low it didn't originally make the cut at all.
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
First: Nagasaki wasn't, as many people know, the original target for the August 9th bombing. That was Kokura, a city somewhat to the north. Nagasaki wasn't even on the original target list — it was added to the final target order at the last minute, to replace Kyoto. pic.twitter.com/mcAqmPOpUJ
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
Today is the 74th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki. Often overlooked, compared to Hiroshima, as merely the "second" atomic bomb, the Nagasaki attack is far more tricky, and important, in several ways. THREAD pic.twitter.com/UQYoz6ftzN
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 9, 2019
The #1 outright myth (as opposed to "thing that people might disagree on") regarding the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that the cities were warned about the impending attack. I see it come up again, and again, and again. (THREAD)
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 8, 2019
To be sure, even though these may have provided some "warning" to the cities on the list, this was a form of psychological warfare: it was the US saying, "look what we can do, and your government can't stop us." In any event, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were NOT on these leaflets. pic.twitter.com/uc4O9IbCPW
— Alex Wellerstein (@wellerstein) August 8, 2019
