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  • August 10th, 2012 11:51pm

    unhistorical:

    August 9, 1945: An atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.

    Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb – “Fat Man” – was detonated over Nagasaki, the third detonation of such a weapon in history. After the bombing of Hiroshima, Harry Truman delivered another message of warning to Japan, saying:

    If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.

    Between the August 6 bombing and Japan’s surrender, approximately six million propaganda leaflets were dropped over dozens of Japanese towns. Nagasaki, like Hiroshima, was chosen for its military importance – it was a seaport and an industrial center, and it was also home to around 200,000 people. Of these, an estimated 39,000 were killed in the initial bomb blast, and thousands more died later from injuries and exposure to radiation. The temperature of the blast reached 3,900 °C. 

    Other atomic bombs were prepared for further attacks, but Japan surrendered (via radio broadcast) on August 15, six days later. 


  • August 10th, 2012 11:40pm

    sayumable:

    Ok, so, I’m quite versed in BTAS and it seriously KILLS me how towards the end you can clearly see how much Babs likes and cares about Dick, but he’s all caught up in changing and being his own man that he just cannot see that he’s hurting her with his flippancy towards her.

    So, I just really like it when he’s more openly attracted to her.

    <3


  • August 10th, 2012 7:58pm

    Men think that acting unjustly is in their power, and therefore that being just is easy. But it is not; to lie with one’s neighbor’s wife, to wound another, to deliver a bribe, is easy and in our power, but to do these things as a certain state of character is neither easy nor in our power.

    Aristotle (via trevoredwards)