united washcloth express":36dksokv said:
There are shadows in parts of Hiroshima with nothing casting them. They're just there, like they have been burnt to the surface. If you think that the after affects of an atomic bomb are not that lethal, then you either haven't studied hard enough, or just lack common sense.
In fact, Nagasaki is also suffering from deformed children and other issues as the result of atomic bombing. People tend to forget Nagasaki.
I never said it wasn't lethal. I just said that it wasn't the worst part about the bomb. Yes, there is radiation left over. But, many more people are born with deformities, all over the world, as the result of something as mundane as having a parent who works at a manufacturing plant, and whose parent handles certain chemicals. There are cities where residents who have lived in (or who are related to people who lived in) specific areas of the city are outcasts, treated like lepers, because of a chemical plant exploding and causing local malformations and deaths. So yes. Radiation is bad. But it isn't the only thing that causes slow death and birth defects, and there are many more of these poorly regulated manufacturing and chemical plants than there are cities suffering from nuclear fallout. People not only can learn to live with these effects, but they have, many times over, all over the world.
As for the shadow thing... Well, the ones that are still there are there because people wanted them there to remember the horror of the war. The rest of them are gone, the walls they were on having been destroyed or rebuilt in some way, shape or form. You also forgot to mention things like the walls with fragments of unidentifiable
stuff embedded in them, from the sheer force of the blast. Not to mention the fact that those shadows aren't from the fallout. They're from the bodies of the dead people who made them protecting the wall from the worst of the blast, up until the heat of the blast vaporized the body itself.
And, considering the fact that neither of the conditions in those photos resulted from birth defects from being born in nuclear fallout, you're acting worse than the yellow journals whose owners are famous for quotes like "You furnish the photos, and I'll furnish the war".
