The Japan Times"Rather than being killed and swarmed by flies, let's throw ourselves into the sea," Mitsuko Arakaki recalls her grandmother saying at the height of the fighting on Tinian Island during World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/japan/society/tinian-death-escape/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #tinianisland #atomicbombings #us #wwii
The World at WarUSMC Staff Sergeant Federico Claveria of Baldwin Park, California stops to give sweets to a Japanese child in the internment camp on Tinian Island - Aug 1944 #ww2 #usmc #worldwar2 #tinian #tinianisland #pacific #marines #internment
Brian Small.> The beginning of protest, they started in Chicago. There were rumblings in Chicago pretty much after that phase was over. Then you started thinking of, you know, what are we doing? [At] Los Alamos there was nothing. I mean, they had the smartest people in the world living there in a closed environment, most of them politically pretty radical, they came out of the European left and things like that, sitting there, no protest. In fact, no questions..> I was teaching an undergraduate course here on these issues and you know Phil Morrison? Phil Morrison was a physicist here, actually he’s still alive but retired, he was the guy who put the bomb together on Tinian Island, he was in the Los Alamos phase, and I think he was probably communist, certainly on the far left. He described for the class what it was like in Los Alamos. And it was just what Feynman said, you know, he said we were all interested in the technical problem. We didn’t even ask what we were doing. And there was no Chicago phase because they were kept at it till the end. They didn’t know it was going to go off, when it went off. So they were all excited, what Oppenheimer called, you know, a beautiful technical problem or something. So that’s what they were engaged in. And yeah, in that respect, Feynman is correct. A number of people did become pretty active but [there] weren’t many. #Oppenheimer #LosAlamos #Feynman #TheSciences #TheBomb #TheAtomBomb #PhilMorrison #TinianIsland
US marines target Japanese defenders with a pack howitzer - Tinian Island, July 1944
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