NAGASAKI

From Nagasaki Journey--
the photographs of Yosuke Yamahata
[Warning: strong images]

"It was perhaps unforgiveable, but in fact at the time,
I was completely calm and composed.
In other words, perhaps it was just too much,
too enormous to absorb."

via the priceless Plep

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Atomic Coverup Redux: 61 Years After the First Bombs Fell
Now comes word of a forthcoming book that compiles the long-suppressed dispatches written by famed reporter George Weller, the first American to arrive in Nagasaki after the bombing.

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And Japanese scientists' WWII lab notes on atomic bomb research have just been found, which gives rise to the question: if the kamikaze-capable wartime leaders of Japan had managed to develop atomic bombs, would they have used them to maximum effect, or would they have refused, for humanitarian reasons?

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In 1995, having been in Japan for less than a year, I attended the 50th anniversary ceremonies marking the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
I decided to publish it here, in two parts... Notes from the 'Nog