Mcdroid wrote: Thanks again WP for the photos...but I have a question on Nagasaki...was the part of town you photographed damaged in WWII? Nagasaki was one of the two nuclear strikes in WWII.
If you look at the sixth picture in the Nagasaki post, taken from Glover Gardens and overlooking the bay, you can see a hill at the upper right, about where the waterway ends. The bomb exploded just on the other side of that hill. Not to belittle or trivialize the horrendous damage inflicted on Nagasaki and its residents by the bomb, but
speaking strictly from a cold-hearted military battle damage assessment perspective, that explosion was a failure. The bomb either exploded too low or was a ground burst, I forget which. Plus, Nagasaki as you can see is a hilly city, so much of the resulting pressure wave's force was deflected upwards. However, again
strictly from a cold-hearted military psychological warfare perspective, the Nagasaki bomb was a success as it proved to the Japanese military government the nuclear threat was repeatable.
Hiroshima, in contrast, was a successful air burst over a largely flat city.