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The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. The entire set is available below. For More Pictures Please visit http://yawoot.com/post/415
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1 -Usman // May 28, 2008 at 8:50 pm
U.S. has always been the terrorist! Down to U.S. Govt.!!!
2 nehl abbasi // Jun 3, 2008 at 11:55 am
Not every american supported the atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Given below are the names of those people who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. The people who thought that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in thier war against Japan. These people’s views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed.
Dwight Eisenhower
Admiral William D.Leath(chief of staff to president Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman)
Herbert Hoover
General Douglas MacArthur
Joseph Grew(under secretary of state)
John McCloy(assistant sec.of war)
Ralph Bard(under sec.of navy)
Lewis Strauss(special assistant to the sec.of navy)
Paul Nitze(vice chairman u.s. strategic bombing survey)
Albert Einstien(the first scientist to suggest that an atomic bomb should be made)
Leo Szilard(the first scientist to concieve of how an atomic bomb shall be made-1933)
Ellis Zacharis(deputy director of the office of naval intelligence)
General Carl “TOOEY” Spatz
Brigadier Genenral Carter Clarke
This shows that many of the high ranked govt. officials didnot agree with president Truman’s barbarious decision of atomic bombardment on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The use of the atomic bomb with its indiscriminate killings of women and children revolts my soul. It was a wrong decision, It was wrong on strategic grounds, It was wrong on humanitarian grounds.
3 kabool // Jul 7, 2008 at 4:35 pm
True many in the US establishment did not agree with the use of nuclear bombs to end the war against Japan( and your most valuable information has made me a better informed person at least) but than so were so many people opposed to the Vietnam War, The Iraq war, The invasion of Grenada and many other evil roles played by the US establishment in many parts of the world. What is wrong with the American people . Why cant they get up and do something about these people who can always mange to do things they the people and the sane element in the US is apposed to.
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