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In light of the release of Oppenheimer, people have been talking about, basically, the other side of the development of atomic weapons. John Hersey's "Hiroshima" article from the August 23, 1946 edition of the New Yorker came up as the definitive piece on the immediate impact of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and it is a gripping read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
"The bomb didnt beat Japan, Stalin did" https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...
That garbage piece of writing completely ignores nearly 80 years of conventional history which includes first-hand account from the very Japanese council cited in the story. Absolute joke content that doesn’t belong on a site like this.
I'm sure the title was truncated for length, but missing "screening in Tokyo" gives a very different impression of what the story is about. I thought some new film was being made by Hollywood with 88,000 extras filming a scene tomorrow.
(submitted title was "'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, set for July 30" and yes HN's title limit is 80 chars so the full title wouldn't fit)
It goes without saying that it is very graphic and not for the faint hearted.
Edit: here it is on YouTube
In light of the release of Oppenheimer, people have been talking about, basically, the other side of the development of atomic weapons. John Hersey's "Hiroshima" article from the August 23, 1946 edition of the New Yorker came up as the definitive piece on the immediate impact of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and it is a gripping read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
That was a hard read. I also recommend Barefoot Gen, the comic series, by Keiji Nakazawa. The depth of the visuals added a lot to my understanding and empathy.
This is what Oppenheimer should’ve been about. Not SPOILERS Mediocre politics, sex, boredom biopic.
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I disliked the anarchism erasure of portraying the Spanish civil war as a "communist party" cause (the authoritarian vanguardist type of communism that the movie focused on)
Communism is an anarchist philosophy, at it's root. If it seems a bit weird because (IIRC) this historical dialectic goes: - bourgeois revolution - Workers revolution - Bigger state - Even bigger state - Underpants gnomes - Anarchist utopia Only half joking... this is what turn of the last century communists believed.
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That was a hard read. I also recommend Barefoot Gen, the comic series, by Keiji Nakazawa. The depth of the visuals added a lot to my understanding and empathy.
Barefoot Gen was also adapted as an anime movie and it's... rough. Another heart-wrenching anime related to the bombings is Grave of the Fireflies.
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/08/04/70-years-...
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Euphemism means using softer words. Getting shellshock from a machine gun is not an euphemism
The context of this conversation is people who were traumatized by an atomic bomb. I think atomic bomb to artillery qualifies as such a softening.
You got an atomic bomb dropped on you, experienced a literal apocalyptic sun consuming everything you loved first hand and all you (impersonal) can come up with is "stress"?
If you want to stay coherent then we should have made up a term specifically to tackle the world-ending experiences these people lived through.