Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

AUGUST 6th at 8:16:02 AM (Hiroshima time) was an exceptionally scorcher of a hot morning...After free falling nearly six miles in forty-three seconds, Little Boy explodes 1,968 feet above the Dr. Shima’s Clinic, 550 feet away from the aiming point of the Aioi Bridge. Nuclear fission begins in 0.15 microseconds with a single neutron, initiating a supercritical chain reaction that increases the temperature to several million degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the surface of the sun at the time the bomb casing blows apart. The yield is 12.5-18 Kt (best estimate is 15 Kt). 


From Dorothy Day’s editorial in the Catholic Worker (newspaper/movement founded in 1933) on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945:

We Go on Record: the CW Response to Hiroshima By Dorothy Day September 1, 1945

Mr. Truman was jubilant. President Truman. True man; what a strange name, come to think of it. We refer to Jesus Christ as true God and true Man. Truman is a true man of his time in that he was jubilant. He was not a son of God, brother of Christ, brother of the Japanese, jubilating as he did. He went from table to table on the cruiser which was bringing him home from the Big Three conference, telling the great news; “jubilant” the newspapers said. Jubilate Deo. We have killed 318,000 Japanese.

That is, we hope we have killed them, the Associated Press, on page one, column one of the Herald Tribune, says. The effect is hoped for, not known. It is to be hoped they are vaporized, our Japanese brothers – scattered, men, women and babies, to the four winds, over the seven seas. Perhaps we will breathe their dust into our nostrils, feel them in the fog of New York on our faces, feel them in the rain on the hills of Easton.

Jubilate Deo. President Truman was jubilant. We have created. We have created destruction. We have created a new element, called Pluto. Nature had nothing to do with it.
Created to Destroy

“A cavern below Columbia was the bomb’s cradle,” born not that men might live, but that men might be killed. Brought into being in a cavern, and then tried in a desert place, in the midst of tempest and lightning, tried out, and then again on the eve of the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ, on a far off island in the eastern hemisphere, tried out again, this “new weapon which conceivably might wipe out mankind, and perhaps the planet itself.”

“Dropped on a town, one bomb would be equivalent to a severe earthquake and would utterly destroy the place. A scientific brain trust has solved the problem of how to confine and release almost unlimited energy. It is impossible yet to measure its effects.”

“We have spent two billion on the greatest scientific gamble in history and won,” said President Truman jubilantly.

The papers list the scientists (the murderers) who are credited with perfecting this new weapon. One outstanding authority “who earlier had developed a powerful electrical bombardment machine called the cyclotron, was Professor O. E. Lawrence, a Nobel prize winner of the University of California. In the heat of the race to unlock the atom, he built the world’s most powerful atom smashing gun, a machine whose electrical projectiles carried charges equivalent to 25,000,000 volts. But such machines were found in the end to be unnecessary. The atom of Uranium-235 was smashed with surprising ease. Science discovered that not sledgehammer blows, but subtle taps from slow traveling neutrons managed more on a tuning technique were all that were needed to disintegrate the Uranium-235 atom.”

Continued at Catholic Worker website


From today's print edition of the New York Times... David W. Dunlap is right in that William "Atomic Bill" Laurence should have been depicted in Christopher Nolan's film OPPENHEIMER.



Loeb’s article contradicted the U.S. War Department, The New York Times and its star reporter, William Laurence, whose exclusive reports helped shape (lie) postwar opinion on the bomb and atomic energy.





The Black Reporter Who Exposed a Lie About the Atom Bomb

Weeks after the Hiroshima bombing, Laurence misleadingly claimed in a front-page article that the destructive force of the atomic blast, not its radiation, had devastated the city and its inhabitants.


How a Star Times Reporter Got Paid by Government Agencies He Covered

As public awareness of the radiation grew, Gen. Leslie Groves, who directed the Manhattan Project, could no longer deny the toll of the bomb’s bursts. He instead, "described their impact on humans as a very pleasant way to die."

By today's standards, Laurence engaged in a rash of troubling deals and alliances. Archives showed that Laurence took on side work with government agencies before the atomic bombing and after World War II.


"Atomic Bill" looks 30% gangster & 70% shyster.


Loeb wasn't the only one, just two days later...


National Security Archive

Saucy or somber? Outdoors or in? Gwen and Grace Groves react for the press. August 1945.




Backlash letter from a publishing executive named Anne Ford to Pres Truman on the atomic bombing...



In letter above on how poorly the post-atomic news had been handled, she singled out an odd image of the wife of Enola Gay pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. with their young children. Amidst all the tabloid hyper-hoopla over Hiroshima, the wire photograph of Lucy Wingate Tibbets (1906-1985) and her two sons had appeared in newspapers across the country on August 8-9, 1945.



President Truman's August 9th 10:00 p.m. radio address transcript or audio that night. Given that news of the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, was already being reported in the evening newspapers, Ms. Ford may have skipped the speech.

Anne Adelaide Ford (born 12 Sep 1901) became director for "Little, Brown and Company" publisher in 1938, is still selling books. In 1949 she was promoted to the position of Manager of Public Relations for the company in NYC. Later, she joined Harcourt Brace, where she publicized books by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Merton and others. She next returned to Boston, where she became director of publicity at Houghton Mifflin Co., publicizing books by Kurt Vonnegut, Roger Tory Peterson and other authors. She died on 16 Nov 1993, had never married and had no children. A few weeks ago her wiki page was scrubbed for some odd reason.

Anne Ford papers at Boston College.


August 6, 1965: WABC-77 DJ Bob Dayton casually mentioned that it was the 20th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. He then said "...So in view of that..." and the opening lyrics to The Crests’ hit "16 Candles" followed "Happy Birthday..." and he was promptly fired due to a scorned wife of ABC Chairman Leonard Goldenson.