INFO YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

THE COCKPIT OF THE ENOLA GAY HELD 12 CYANIDE

PILLS THAT THE CREW WAS SUPPOSED TO INGEST

IF THE MISSION WAS COMPROMISED

FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, HIROSHIMA RECAST

ITSELF AS THE "PEACE MEMORIAL CITY" AND

FOREVER TASKED ITSELF WITH REMINDING THE

WORLD OF THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF NUCLEAR

WEAPONS. TODAY, WHENEVER A COUNTRY TESTS

A NUKE, THE MAYOR OF HIROSHIMA WRITES A

LETTER IN PROTEST

GODZILLA WAS CREATED BY JAPAN IN RESPONSE

TO THE BOMBINGS. THE MONSTER ITSELF WAS

SAID TO HAVE SPAWNED FROM THE

RADIOACTIVE RUBBLE

ALTHOUGH DURING THE WAR DR SEUSS WAS

VERY MUCH IN FAVOUR OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT,

HIS POST WAR STORY “HORTON HEARS A WHO”

WAS SAID TO BE AN ALLEGORY OF HIROSHIMA

AND AN APOLOGY FOR HIS PRIOR VIEWS. HE

DEDICATED THE BOOK TO A JAPANESE FRIEND

THE BLASTS IN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI WERE SO

POWERFUL THAT THEY PERMANENTLY BURNED

SHADOWS OF PEOPLE INTO THE EARTH

SINCE OLEANDER FLOWERS WERE THE FIRST

THING TO BLOOM FOLLOWING THE BLAST IN

HIROSHIMA, THEY ARE THE CITY'S OFFICIAL FLOWER

BEFORE DROPPING THE BOMBS, THE US AIR FORCE

SHOWERED THE CITIES OF HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI

AND 33 OTHER POTENTIAL TARGETS WITH

MILLIONS OF PAMPHLETS WARNING PEOPLE OF

THE IMPENDING BOMBINGS

AN AMERICAN CONTROLLED RADIO STATION IN

SAIPAN WAS ALSO BROADCASTING THIS

MESSAGE THROUGHOUT JAPAN EVERY 15

MINUTES UP UNTIL THE BOMBS WERE DROPPED