Nagasaki: The Massacre of Fat Boy  

By: Marcos Alfonso  
 
Hardly three days had passed since that traumatic day of August 1945. This time the b-29 bomber plane Bock's Car (ironic name) was dropping from the skies another nuclear device, now on the Japanese industrial city of Nagasaki.  
    
The topography of that city made the effects of Fat Boy (name given to the deadly plutonium bomb) somewhat less devastating, but similar in destruction and elimination of innocent human lives.  
    
Which was the Yankee move?  
    
The higher echelon of the Japanese army considered that the United States had only one atomic bomb and that the catastrophe had already happened. They stayed with weapons at the ready. Big mistake, because that calculation was foreseen by the U.S. army and with a difference of 72 hours, they dropped the second devastating and killing device.  
    
Contrary to Hiroshima, located in a valley, Nagasaki’s topography made possible that the shock wave didn't expand any further because it was surrounded by mountains. But the destruction and death were immediate and were unleashed from the very instant of the bomb impact.  
    
Survivors who narrated the Dantean happenings described that there were no buildings standing in several miles from the impact of the bomb, and even steel structures of concrete buildings were burned. Glasses of windows burst at more than eight kilometers. Trees were torn from their root and burned by the heat. The 40% of the city disappeared from the face of earth.  
   
This data is quite illustrating: Nagasaki was a city of almost 250 thousand inhabitants. During the bomb’s impact and in later days and weeks 70 thousand Japanese and many more thousands died with the passing of the years. All felt in their flesh the Dantesque suffering and horrors caused by the atomic mushroom.
    
A media campaign with surveys in the United States showed that the 70% of the population agreed with the dropping of both genocidal devices. The justification in the press, radio, and television was that those bombs had facilitated the end of the war and avoided many deaths of Japanese and North American soldiers. Shamelessness!  
   
Nagasaki made believe the Japanese authorities that all their cities could be razed and that there was a third bomb ready. Although the monster was not finished it was in process, what was missing was just enough fissionable material (division of the atom nucleus produced by a bombing of neutrons in which large amounts of energy is liberated).  
    
Emperor Hirohito, victim of fear and drama of the high officialdom of the Japanese army had no other choice, but  to descended from his divine condition to inform and convince his people (without mentioning the word rendition) that the war was over.  
   
The dice was cast. On the world had made its appearance the most destructive weapon known by humanity until then. The rest, until nowadays is well-known history, and I dare say very near around these days, given the events that occur in different places of the planet.  
    
Let’s hope this Dantesque scene, born from the testimony of survivors, opens the eyes of sensitive souls in this world: "On some surfaces, like the walls of several buildings, were captured the shades of carbon of people who were suddenly disintegrated by the explosion."

Cubasi Translation Staff