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For All the Articles on the Atomic Bomb
the Credit is Given to ...
Anders Björkman M.Sc. - FRANCE
Naval Architect and Marine Engineer
https://heiwaco.tripod.com/bombpart1.htm
For All the Articles on the Atomic Bomb
the Credit is Given to ...
Anders Björkman M.Sc. - FRANCE
Naval Architect and Marine Engineer
https://heiwaco.tripod.com/bombpart1.htm
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The Bikini Nuclear Test - Firebombed or Nuked?
Atom Bomb Don't Exist - Atomic B. Deception - Hiroshima HOAX
Hiroshima & Nagasaki - Nuke Atom Myth - Nuclear Fission - Miles Mathis - Hoax
Radiation Today - https://ancientmistery.weebly.com/no-genetic-damage.html
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The Bikini Nuclear Test - Firebombed or Nuked?
Atom Bomb Don't Exist - Atomic B. Deception - Hiroshima HOAX
Hiroshima & Nagasaki - Nuke Atom Myth - Nuclear Fission - Miles Mathis - Hoax
Radiation Today - https://ancientmistery.weebly.com/no-genetic-damage.html
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN 37232
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN 37232
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John D. Boice ScD,
of the National Cancer Institute,
said ...
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”Ionizing radiation is known to cause heritable mutations
in many species of plants and animals,
but intense study of
☀︎ 70,000 offspring ☀︎
of JAPAN's atomic bomb survivors
has FAILED
to identify an increase
in congenital abnormalities,
cancer,
chromosome aberrations
or mutational blood protein changes.”
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From the
New York Times
Aug. 1, 1990, Section A, Page 12 of the National edition with the headline ...
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/01/us/hiroshima-study-finds-no-genetic-damage.html
Or See it at the End of This Page ...
of the National Cancer Institute,
said ...
☀︎
”Ionizing radiation is known to cause heritable mutations
in many species of plants and animals,
but intense study of
☀︎ 70,000 offspring ☀︎
of JAPAN's atomic bomb survivors
has FAILED
to identify an increase
in congenital abnormalities,
cancer,
chromosome aberrations
or mutational blood protein changes.”
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From the
New York Times
Aug. 1, 1990, Section A, Page 12 of the National edition with the headline ...
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/01/us/hiroshima-study-finds-no-genetic-damage.html
Or See it at the End of This Page ...
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The atomic bomb that detonated over
Hiroshima used
Uranium-235,
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while the
Nagasaki bomb had
Plutonium-239.
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The half-life of U-235 is
703 800 000 million years,
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The half-life of Pu-239 is
24,100 years
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In other words, once on the ground, they will be there for a very long time.
"Today, the background radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the same
as the average amount of natural radiation present anywhere on Earth."
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IT WOULD TAKE AGES
TO MOVE BACK TO THE CITIES
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The atomic bomb that detonated over
Hiroshima used
Uranium-235,
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while the
Nagasaki bomb had
Plutonium-239.
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The half-life of U-235 is
703 800 000 million years,
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The half-life of Pu-239 is
24,100 years
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In other words, once on the ground, they will be there for a very long time.
"Today, the background radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the same
as the average amount of natural radiation present anywhere on Earth."
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IT WOULD TAKE AGES
TO MOVE BACK TO THE CITIES
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The Hiroshima - Radiation Sickness
Was Mustard Gas Poisoning
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"The malodorous “atom-bomb gas”
that was perceived by many during
and after the bombings was none
other than mustard gas."
This begs the question -
Are nuclear bombs another hoax?
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Hiroshima Revisited - Pdf.
by Michael Palmer, MD
The Hiroshima - Radiation Sickness
Was Mustard Gas Poisoning
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"The malodorous “atom-bomb gas”
that was perceived by many during
and after the bombings was none
other than mustard gas."
This begs the question -
Are nuclear bombs another hoax?
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Hiroshima Revisited - Pdf.
by Michael Palmer, MD
| Hiroshima Revisited - .pdf by Michael Palmer, MD |
by Michael Palmer, MD
In previous posts [1,2] and elsewhere [3,4], I have argued that no atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, there are numerous reports of radiation sickness from both cities.
A recent post here [5] presented some of the eyewitness testimony suggesting that the “radiation sickness” was caused not by radiation but rather by mustard gas. Here, we will look at some of the objective evidence—as well as some further relevant eyewitness testimony—that supports the use of mustard gas in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1. Acute lung damage and respiratory distress
While mustard gas has radiation-like effects on the bone marrow, the hair follicles, and other sensitive tissues, there nevertheless are telling differences between the two. Inhalation of mustard gas will cause acute and severe lung damage. In contrast, in those exposed to rapidly fatal radiation doses, it is the brain, not the lung, which shuts down first [6, p. 218]:
"In a nuclear criticality accident at Los Alamos in 1958, one worker received a total body dose … between 39 and 49 Gray. … This person went into a state of shock immediately and was unconscious within a few minutes … The patient died 35 hours after the accident."
In contrast, many early victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered the most intense respiratory distress. An eyewitness from Hiroshima, Mr. Hashimoto, recounts from the day of the bombing [7]:
"When I reached the Misasa railway bridge … I encountered a dead man. I saw many others in the water tanks fighting for breath. The sight was horrible."
Mr. Hashimoto also describes the aftermath:
"During those days, wherever you went, there were so many dead lying around it was impossible to walk without encountering them—swollen, discolored bodies with froth oozing from their noses and mouths."
The "oozing froth" noted by the astute Mr. Hashimoto is an indication of toxic lung edema, which is also known from cases of unprotected exposure to mustard gas [8]. Other effects seen in early fatalities are lung emphysema, i.e. excessively inflated lung tissue, together with atelectasis, i.e. compressed or deflated lung tissue (see Figure 1). The simultaneous presence of emphysema and atelectasis is also described in standard works on mustard gas poisonings that were published after World War I [9,10].
In previous posts [1,2] and elsewhere [3,4], I have argued that no atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, there are numerous reports of radiation sickness from both cities.
A recent post here [5] presented some of the eyewitness testimony suggesting that the “radiation sickness” was caused not by radiation but rather by mustard gas. Here, we will look at some of the objective evidence—as well as some further relevant eyewitness testimony—that supports the use of mustard gas in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1. Acute lung damage and respiratory distress
While mustard gas has radiation-like effects on the bone marrow, the hair follicles, and other sensitive tissues, there nevertheless are telling differences between the two. Inhalation of mustard gas will cause acute and severe lung damage. In contrast, in those exposed to rapidly fatal radiation doses, it is the brain, not the lung, which shuts down first [6, p. 218]:
"In a nuclear criticality accident at Los Alamos in 1958, one worker received a total body dose … between 39 and 49 Gray. … This person went into a state of shock immediately and was unconscious within a few minutes … The patient died 35 hours after the accident."
In contrast, many early victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered the most intense respiratory distress. An eyewitness from Hiroshima, Mr. Hashimoto, recounts from the day of the bombing [7]:
"When I reached the Misasa railway bridge … I encountered a dead man. I saw many others in the water tanks fighting for breath. The sight was horrible."
Mr. Hashimoto also describes the aftermath:
"During those days, wherever you went, there were so many dead lying around it was impossible to walk without encountering them—swollen, discolored bodies with froth oozing from their noses and mouths."
The "oozing froth" noted by the astute Mr. Hashimoto is an indication of toxic lung edema, which is also known from cases of unprotected exposure to mustard gas [8]. Other effects seen in early fatalities are lung emphysema, i.e. excessively inflated lung tissue, together with atelectasis, i.e. compressed or deflated lung tissue (see Figure 1). The simultaneous presence of emphysema and atelectasis is also described in standard works on mustard gas poisonings that were published after World War I [9,10].
Figure 1: Lung emphysema (excessive inflation) and atelectasis (compression) in an early fatality from Hiroshima [11].
2. Acute radiation sickness in people who weren’t near the alleged nuclear bomb
According to the OFFICIAL STORY of the bombings, rapidly fatal radiation doses could only have been received 1) within less than 1.5 km from the center of the detonation, and 2) at the exact time of the detonation [12]. However, there have been numerous cases of “radiation sickness” in persons who were not near the bombing when it happened, but who entered the zone of destruction shortly afterwards. An early case report is shown in Figure 2. The available statistical evidence on such cases is presented in Chapter 8 of my book [3].
2. Acute radiation sickness in people who weren’t near the alleged nuclear bomb
According to the OFFICIAL STORY of the bombings, rapidly fatal radiation doses could only have been received 1) within less than 1.5 km from the center of the detonation, and 2) at the exact time of the detonation [12]. However, there have been numerous cases of “radiation sickness” in persons who were not near the bombing when it happened, but who entered the zone of destruction shortly afterwards. An early case report is shown in Figure 2. The available statistical evidence on such cases is presented in Chapter 8 of my book [3].
Figure 2: Excerpt from an early report of the International Committee of the Red Cross [13], describing a fatal case of “radiation sickness” in a young man who entered the inner city of Hiroshima only after the bombing.
Anecdotal evidence further reinforces this point. For example, here is an excerpt from the recollections of Toyofumi Ogura, a history professor from Hiroshima University [14]:
"Yet even some people from that remote area who’d visited Hiroshima after the bombing later developed the symptoms of radiation sickness and eventually died. … They took time off from work and rested at home but in the meantime developed fevers, loose bowels and spots on the skin, all of which gradually got worse. I heard many such anecdotes from people on trains, in the town of Saijo and in nearby villages."
3. Skin lesions
Mustard gas is a blistering agent—it disrupts the connection between the skin and the underlying tissues. Skin blisters are quite commonly described in witness testimony. Ogura’s daughter describes the aspect of her mother’s body after her death due to “radiation sickness”:
"She passed away with a photograph of our departed baby sister, Toshiko … on her breast. … Father, Kei-chan, Kinji and I cleaned her body. … There was a very big blister at her hip from a burn. It was red and must have been very painful. We dressed her in her favorite kimono and scattered paper flower petals over her breast."
Even skin which has not yet detached from its support may do so when subjected to shear stress. Here is a description by Col. Stewart F. Alexander, the US military physician who had looked after the victims of a Luftwaffe attack on an American freight ship which had been carrying mustard gas, in the Italian port city of Bari [15]:
"In many cases large areas of the superficial layers of the epidermis were separated from their deeper layers and torn loose … The pathologists repeatedly noted that these layers of the skin were dislodged upon handling of the body … As the superficial skin layers were stripped loose they often took their surface hair with them."
And here, for comparison, one more quote from Ogura’s book. As he makes his way across the city in search of his relatives, on the day of the bombing, he comes upon an obstacle:
"Near the end of the bridge, I came across three dead bodies lying haphazardly, face up … positioned such that I would be forced to step over one of them. … I could not bring myself to do that.
Since the dead woman’s knees were raised slightly, I grasped the ankles to move the legs aside slightly so that I could pass without having to step over the body. But as I tried to lift the legs, I thought I felt my hands slip. It was an indescribably weird sensation. Looking down at my hands, I saw the exposed muscles of both legs, from the knees down, glinting in the sun. … The skin had peeled off and had gathered at the ankles, all wrinkled up.
I crouched there for a minute, with the shock of it."
Even though pathology reports on victims from Hiroshima are scarce, those that one can find also contain descriptions of peeling skin.
4. Conclusion
So there you have it—the clinical signs one finds described by eyewitnesses and by pathologists clearly indicate that the malodorous “atom-bomb gas” that was perceived by many during and after the bombings was none other than mustard gas. This was, however, not the only deadly weapon deployed in these bombings; another one was napalm. I will present the corresponding evidence at a later time.
References
1. Palmer, M. (2020) Japan Nuclear Attacks Were Faked.
2. Palmer, M. (2023) Smoking Gun! No Nuclear Bombs Were Dropped on Japan.
3. Palmer, M. (2020) Hiroshima revisited: the evidence that napalm and mustard gas helped fake the atomic bombings.
4. Palmer, M. (2023) The truth about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
5. Palmer, M. (2023) Hiroshima Deaths Due to Mustard Gas.
6. Hall, E. and Giaccia, A. (2019) Radiobiology for the Radiologist (Wolters Kluwer Health).
7. Hachiya, M. (1955) Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (University of North Carolina Press).
8. Freitag, L. et al. (1991) The role of bronchoscopy in pulmonary complications due to mustard gas inhalation. Chest 100:1436-41
9. Warthin, A.S. and Weller, C.V. (1919) The medical aspects of mustard gas poisoning (Mosby).
10. Gilchrist, H.L. (1933) The residual effects of warfare gases.
11. Liebow, A.A. et al. (1949) Pathology of atomic bomb casualties. Am. J. Pathol. 25:853-1027
12. Cullings, H.M. et al. (2006) Dose estimation for atomic bomb survivor studies: its evolution and present status. Radiat. Res. 166:219-54
13. Bilfinger, F.W. (2015) ICRC report on the effects of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. International Review of the Red Cross 97:859-882
14. Ogura, T. (1997) Letters from the end of the world (Kodansha International).
15. Alexander, S.F. (1947) Medical report on the Bari Harbor mustard casualties. Mil. Surg. 101:1-17
https://henrymakow.com/2023/04/hiroshima--radiation-sickness-.html
Anecdotal evidence further reinforces this point. For example, here is an excerpt from the recollections of Toyofumi Ogura, a history professor from Hiroshima University [14]:
"Yet even some people from that remote area who’d visited Hiroshima after the bombing later developed the symptoms of radiation sickness and eventually died. … They took time off from work and rested at home but in the meantime developed fevers, loose bowels and spots on the skin, all of which gradually got worse. I heard many such anecdotes from people on trains, in the town of Saijo and in nearby villages."
3. Skin lesions
Mustard gas is a blistering agent—it disrupts the connection between the skin and the underlying tissues. Skin blisters are quite commonly described in witness testimony. Ogura’s daughter describes the aspect of her mother’s body after her death due to “radiation sickness”:
"She passed away with a photograph of our departed baby sister, Toshiko … on her breast. … Father, Kei-chan, Kinji and I cleaned her body. … There was a very big blister at her hip from a burn. It was red and must have been very painful. We dressed her in her favorite kimono and scattered paper flower petals over her breast."
Even skin which has not yet detached from its support may do so when subjected to shear stress. Here is a description by Col. Stewart F. Alexander, the US military physician who had looked after the victims of a Luftwaffe attack on an American freight ship which had been carrying mustard gas, in the Italian port city of Bari [15]:
"In many cases large areas of the superficial layers of the epidermis were separated from their deeper layers and torn loose … The pathologists repeatedly noted that these layers of the skin were dislodged upon handling of the body … As the superficial skin layers were stripped loose they often took their surface hair with them."
And here, for comparison, one more quote from Ogura’s book. As he makes his way across the city in search of his relatives, on the day of the bombing, he comes upon an obstacle:
"Near the end of the bridge, I came across three dead bodies lying haphazardly, face up … positioned such that I would be forced to step over one of them. … I could not bring myself to do that.
Since the dead woman’s knees were raised slightly, I grasped the ankles to move the legs aside slightly so that I could pass without having to step over the body. But as I tried to lift the legs, I thought I felt my hands slip. It was an indescribably weird sensation. Looking down at my hands, I saw the exposed muscles of both legs, from the knees down, glinting in the sun. … The skin had peeled off and had gathered at the ankles, all wrinkled up.
I crouched there for a minute, with the shock of it."
Even though pathology reports on victims from Hiroshima are scarce, those that one can find also contain descriptions of peeling skin.
4. Conclusion
So there you have it—the clinical signs one finds described by eyewitnesses and by pathologists clearly indicate that the malodorous “atom-bomb gas” that was perceived by many during and after the bombings was none other than mustard gas. This was, however, not the only deadly weapon deployed in these bombings; another one was napalm. I will present the corresponding evidence at a later time.
References
1. Palmer, M. (2020) Japan Nuclear Attacks Were Faked.
2. Palmer, M. (2023) Smoking Gun! No Nuclear Bombs Were Dropped on Japan.
3. Palmer, M. (2020) Hiroshima revisited: the evidence that napalm and mustard gas helped fake the atomic bombings.
4. Palmer, M. (2023) The truth about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
5. Palmer, M. (2023) Hiroshima Deaths Due to Mustard Gas.
6. Hall, E. and Giaccia, A. (2019) Radiobiology for the Radiologist (Wolters Kluwer Health).
7. Hachiya, M. (1955) Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (University of North Carolina Press).
8. Freitag, L. et al. (1991) The role of bronchoscopy in pulmonary complications due to mustard gas inhalation. Chest 100:1436-41
9. Warthin, A.S. and Weller, C.V. (1919) The medical aspects of mustard gas poisoning (Mosby).
10. Gilchrist, H.L. (1933) The residual effects of warfare gases.
11. Liebow, A.A. et al. (1949) Pathology of atomic bomb casualties. Am. J. Pathol. 25:853-1027
12. Cullings, H.M. et al. (2006) Dose estimation for atomic bomb survivor studies: its evolution and present status. Radiat. Res. 166:219-54
13. Bilfinger, F.W. (2015) ICRC report on the effects of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. International Review of the Red Cross 97:859-882
14. Ogura, T. (1997) Letters from the end of the world (Kodansha International).
15. Alexander, S.F. (1947) Medical report on the Bari Harbor mustard casualties. Mil. Surg. 101:1-17
https://henrymakow.com/2023/04/hiroshima--radiation-sickness-.html
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B-29s firebomb Tokyo. PHOTO: 73rd Wing Photography
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Was Hiroshima Firebombed
and Not Nuked?
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https://www.winterwatch.net/2023/04/was-hiroshima-firebombed-and-not-nuked/
April 18, 2023 Russ Winter Articles by Russ Winter, Hidden History, Winter Watch Articles 34
B-29s firebomb Tokyo. PHOTO: 73rd Wing Photography
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Was Hiroshima Firebombed
and Not Nuked?
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https://www.winterwatch.net/2023/04/was-hiroshima-firebombed-and-not-nuked/
April 18, 2023 Russ Winter Articles by Russ Winter, Hidden History, Winter Watch Articles 34
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Following my article on the August 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I received some challenges from readers concerning the notion that the attack was in actuality another in a series of highly destructive firebombings that had been underway in Japan (and Germany) throughout 1945.
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As I stated in the comments section, the focus of the article was only about the unnecessary prolonging the Pacific war. However, I tend to agree with the challengers. The firebombing theory does need to be addressed. It’s not implausible, especially given that by the time of Hiroshima the U.S. Strategic bombing command had terror bombing and cooking civilians down to a exact science.
It is an established fact that napalm chemical firebombing of wooden Japanese cities was extremely destructive.
In May 1945, Tokyo was hit with incendiary payloads from 334 B-29 Superfortresses, burning 16 square miles and destroying more than half of the city.
The Hiroshima operation involved 4 sq. miles. Using the Tokyo ratio, it could have been achieved with 83 planes.
It is an established fact that napalm chemical firebombing of wooden Japanese cities was extremely destructive.
In May 1945, Tokyo was hit with incendiary payloads from 334 B-29 Superfortresses, burning 16 square miles and destroying more than half of the city.
The Hiroshima operation involved 4 sq. miles. Using the Tokyo ratio, it could have been achieved with 83 planes.
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Hiroshima was a wooden shantytown constructed in a concentrated area. It was a sitting duck for a carefully crafted firebombing terror attack with an atomic-bomb psyop added on for full effect.
In the previous article, regular TNN commenter “Brabantian” mentions evidence from Swedish engineer and nuclear expert Anders Björkman.
The smoking gun: The day and hour Hiroshima was bombed, U.S. air command logged a fleet of 66 bombers for an operation in nearby Imabari Japan. But this city no longer existed. It had been wiped out in two previous raids. This was the fleet that firebombed Hiroshima.
Liddell Hart’s “History of the Second World War” claims
that Japanese on the ground didn’t know they had been A-bombed until long after the end of the war.
Allied occupation authorities also clamped down on eyewitness testimonies.
Testimonies that did come out often had a scripted, deceptive quality to them.
The accounts themselves could have been describing a napalm bombing, but then suggestive phrases are inserted into the narratives, such as “strange yellow ray” and “sun ray.”
There are also accounts of a single B-29 flying over; but flying at 32,000 feet, the bomber would not be visible from the ground, nor would a small fleet.
However, one eyewitness, Father John A. Siemes (source: Yale’s website- the Avalon Project) provided more details as to how this may have gone down.
It was rumored that the enemy fliers had spread an explosive and incendiary material over the city and then had created the explosion and ignition.
A few maintained that they saw the planes drop a parachute which had carried something that exploded at a height of 1,000 meters. No one knew anything for certain concerning the nature of the bomb.
The bombing planners drawing from their science of mass killing, first spread incendiary material to prep the target. This soaked kindling could have then been lit like a match from a small high-flying fleet of B-29s. This makes it possible to destruct the target with even less than 66 aircraft, and would make it a highly contained and controlled operation.
In pursuing this issue, we note the absence of “mushroom cloud” photos from the ground in Japan.
Among the very few photos of the Hiroshima bombing that do exist, the following three suggests a raging firestorm, not a nuclear explosion.
The photos appear consistent with the others shot at different distances and angles. These firestorms were described at Hamburg in 1943, Dresden in 1945 and the various other Japanese incinerations of 1945.
In the previous article, regular TNN commenter “Brabantian” mentions evidence from Swedish engineer and nuclear expert Anders Björkman.
The smoking gun: The day and hour Hiroshima was bombed, U.S. air command logged a fleet of 66 bombers for an operation in nearby Imabari Japan. But this city no longer existed. It had been wiped out in two previous raids. This was the fleet that firebombed Hiroshima.
Liddell Hart’s “History of the Second World War” claims
that Japanese on the ground didn’t know they had been A-bombed until long after the end of the war.
Allied occupation authorities also clamped down on eyewitness testimonies.
Testimonies that did come out often had a scripted, deceptive quality to them.
The accounts themselves could have been describing a napalm bombing, but then suggestive phrases are inserted into the narratives, such as “strange yellow ray” and “sun ray.”
There are also accounts of a single B-29 flying over; but flying at 32,000 feet, the bomber would not be visible from the ground, nor would a small fleet.
However, one eyewitness, Father John A. Siemes (source: Yale’s website- the Avalon Project) provided more details as to how this may have gone down.
It was rumored that the enemy fliers had spread an explosive and incendiary material over the city and then had created the explosion and ignition.
A few maintained that they saw the planes drop a parachute which had carried something that exploded at a height of 1,000 meters. No one knew anything for certain concerning the nature of the bomb.
The bombing planners drawing from their science of mass killing, first spread incendiary material to prep the target. This soaked kindling could have then been lit like a match from a small high-flying fleet of B-29s. This makes it possible to destruct the target with even less than 66 aircraft, and would make it a highly contained and controlled operation.
In pursuing this issue, we note the absence of “mushroom cloud” photos from the ground in Japan.
Among the very few photos of the Hiroshima bombing that do exist, the following three suggests a raging firestorm, not a nuclear explosion.
The photos appear consistent with the others shot at different distances and angles. These firestorms were described at Hamburg in 1943, Dresden in 1945 and the various other Japanese incinerations of 1945.
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The Daily Telegraph on Jan. 9, 2013, published this new photo (below) taken of the bombing. It, too, resembles a firebombing and developing firestorm.
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In the book “Osada’s Children of the A-Bomb,” a survivor describes a scene that is altogether different from an A-bomb, stating,
“I looked up to the sky, a streamer of smoke, perhaps 50 yards high, rising from the centre of Hiroshima, about 2 miles distant. At the top of the column of smoke was a ball of fire which seemed to me to be about the size of a large oil tank.”
U.S. Major Alexander P. de Seversky,
who in 1945 inspected the bombed-towns of Japan, testified:
In Hiroshima I was prepared for radically different sights. But, to my surprise, Hiroshima looked exactly like all the other burned-out cities in Japan.
There was a familiar pink blot, about two miles in diameter. It was dotted with charred trees and telephone poles. Only one of the cities twenty bridges was down. Hiroshima’s clusters of modern buildings in the downtown section stood upright.
It was obvious that the blast could not have been so powerful as we had been led to believe. It was extensive blast rather than intensive.
I had heard of buildings instantly consumed by unprecedented heat. Yet here I saw the buildings structurally intact, and what is more, topped by undamaged flag poles, lightning rods, painted railings, air raid precaution signs and other comparatively fragile objects.
At the T-bridge, the aiming point for the atomic bomb, I looked for the “bald spot” where everything presumably had been vaporized in the twinkling of an eye. It wasn’t there or anywhere else. I could find no traces of unusual phenomena.
What I did see was in substance a replica of Yokohama or Osaka, or the Tokyo suburbs – the familiar residue of an area of wood and brick houses razed by uncontrollable fire.
Everywhere I saw the trunks of charred and leafless trees, burned and unburned chunks of wood. The fire had been intense enough to bend and twist steel girders and to melt glass until it ran like lava – just as in other Japanese cities.
The concrete buildings nearest to the centre of explosion, some only a few blocks from the heart of the atom blast, showed no structural damage. Even cornices, canopies and delicate exterior decorations were intact. Window glass was shattered, of course, but single-panel frames held firm; only window frames of two or more panels were bent and buckled.
The blast impact therefore could not have been unusual.
“I looked up to the sky, a streamer of smoke, perhaps 50 yards high, rising from the centre of Hiroshima, about 2 miles distant. At the top of the column of smoke was a ball of fire which seemed to me to be about the size of a large oil tank.”
U.S. Major Alexander P. de Seversky,
who in 1945 inspected the bombed-towns of Japan, testified:
In Hiroshima I was prepared for radically different sights. But, to my surprise, Hiroshima looked exactly like all the other burned-out cities in Japan.
There was a familiar pink blot, about two miles in diameter. It was dotted with charred trees and telephone poles. Only one of the cities twenty bridges was down. Hiroshima’s clusters of modern buildings in the downtown section stood upright.
It was obvious that the blast could not have been so powerful as we had been led to believe. It was extensive blast rather than intensive.
I had heard of buildings instantly consumed by unprecedented heat. Yet here I saw the buildings structurally intact, and what is more, topped by undamaged flag poles, lightning rods, painted railings, air raid precaution signs and other comparatively fragile objects.
At the T-bridge, the aiming point for the atomic bomb, I looked for the “bald spot” where everything presumably had been vaporized in the twinkling of an eye. It wasn’t there or anywhere else. I could find no traces of unusual phenomena.
What I did see was in substance a replica of Yokohama or Osaka, or the Tokyo suburbs – the familiar residue of an area of wood and brick houses razed by uncontrollable fire.
Everywhere I saw the trunks of charred and leafless trees, burned and unburned chunks of wood. The fire had been intense enough to bend and twist steel girders and to melt glass until it ran like lava – just as in other Japanese cities.
The concrete buildings nearest to the centre of explosion, some only a few blocks from the heart of the atom blast, showed no structural damage. Even cornices, canopies and delicate exterior decorations were intact. Window glass was shattered, of course, but single-panel frames held firm; only window frames of two or more panels were bent and buckled.
The blast impact therefore could not have been unusual.
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Finally, one of the biggest red flags for me that this may not have been atomic was a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (good link) in 1990.
The 40-year study of thousands of Japanese who survived the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki found radiation exposure did not cause genetic damage that could lead to human mutations. The researcher, John Boice of the National Cancer Institute, said,
”Ionizing radiation is known to cause heritable mutations in many species of plants and animals,
but intense study of 70,000 offspring of atomic bomb survivors has failed to identify an increase
in congenital abnormalities, cancer, chromosome aberrations or mutational blood protein changes.”
The 40-year study of thousands of Japanese who survived the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki found radiation exposure did not cause genetic damage that could lead to human mutations. The researcher, John Boice of the National Cancer Institute, said,
”Ionizing radiation is known to cause heritable mutations in many species of plants and animals,
but intense study of 70,000 offspring of atomic bomb survivors has failed to identify an increase
in congenital abnormalities, cancer, chromosome aberrations or mutational blood protein changes.”
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Hiroshima Study Finds
No Genetic Damage
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The New York Times Archives
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https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/01/us/hiroshima-study-finds-no-genetic-damage.html
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Hiroshima Study Finds
No Genetic Damage
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The New York Times Archives
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https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/01/us/hiroshima-study-finds-no-genetic-damage.html
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Hiroshima Study Finds No Genetic Damage
Reuters - Aug. 1, 1990
The New York Times Archives
A 40-year study of thousands of Japanese who survived the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki shows radiation exposure did not cause genetic damage that could lead to human mutations, a researcher said today.
The researcher, John Boice of the National Cancer Institute said, ''Ionizing radiation is known to cause heritable mutations in many species of plants and animals, but intense study of 70,000 offspring of atomic bomb survivors has failed to identify an increase in congenital abnormalities, cancer, chromosome aberrations or mutational blood protein changes.''
Mr. Boice's comments were published in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, which carried several studies on the 45th anniversary of the bombings.
Since 1950, 100,000 survivors of the two blasts have been studied. Mr. Boice said the primary health problems faced by the survivors has been cancer. Those who were young children at the time also suffered impaired growth.
Mr. Boice said the finding that no genetic damage occurred might seem to run counter to a report from Britain asserting that men who worked at a large nuclear fuel reprocessing complex near Sellafield fathered children who developed leukemia. Mr. Boice said the findings suggest that other factors might be the cause of the leukemia cases near Sellafield.
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 1, 1990, Section A, Page 12 of the National edition with the headline:
Hiroshima Study Finds No Genetic Damage. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
Reuters - Aug. 1, 1990
The New York Times Archives
A 40-year study of thousands of Japanese who survived the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki shows radiation exposure did not cause genetic damage that could lead to human mutations, a researcher said today.
The researcher, John Boice of the National Cancer Institute said, ''Ionizing radiation is known to cause heritable mutations in many species of plants and animals, but intense study of 70,000 offspring of atomic bomb survivors has failed to identify an increase in congenital abnormalities, cancer, chromosome aberrations or mutational blood protein changes.''
Mr. Boice's comments were published in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, which carried several studies on the 45th anniversary of the bombings.
Since 1950, 100,000 survivors of the two blasts have been studied. Mr. Boice said the primary health problems faced by the survivors has been cancer. Those who were young children at the time also suffered impaired growth.
Mr. Boice said the finding that no genetic damage occurred might seem to run counter to a report from Britain asserting that men who worked at a large nuclear fuel reprocessing complex near Sellafield fathered children who developed leukemia. Mr. Boice said the findings suggest that other factors might be the cause of the leukemia cases near Sellafield.
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 1, 1990, Section A, Page 12 of the National edition with the headline:
Hiroshima Study Finds No Genetic Damage. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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