I’m taking a look at a picture essay of the Hiroshima bombing at Time. Oddly, picture #8 does not appear to be from Hiroshima at all:
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The caption reads: “A panoramic aerial view of the city three weeks after the U.S. air raid”
I’m not exactly an expert here, but this appears to be the result of a conventional daylight air raid: the landscape is littered with impact craters of the type left behind by conventional high-explosive bombs dropped by many planes. Also notice the buildings in the lower-left corner appear to be standing. An atomic bomb air burst would have flattened those structures (along with everything else), but not left multiple impact craters.
My conclusion: this area was hit by a force of conventional bombers — not the Enola Gay.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
Tags: media bias, WMD