Hiroshima and Related Stories
When Hiroshima, one of major cities in western Japan, was attacked by a US B29 bomber that released an atomic (nuclear) bomb onto the ground zero, most of Hiroshima citizens thought it was just one common example of US air raids that were being conducted all over the Empire of Japan.
Surviving Hiroshima victims did not think that it was a very, very extraordinary attack with one super-bomb that could kill 100,000 people instantly with its blast. They thought that Hiroshima was attacked like Tokyo where tens of thousands of innocent citizens were killed in bombing by 300 B29 bombers on March 10, 1945. Hiroshima people did not think it was an attack that would be remembered in human history forever. And almost nobody thought at the time that the great devastation of the city and great losses of human lives in Hiroshima would persuade the Imperial Government to surrender to the US and its allies. Like most of citizens of the Empire of Japan, Hiroshima survivors were still prepared for the final mainland battles against US troops expected to carry out landing operation on Japan proper.
However, most of the elite Japanese soon realized that the US military used an atomic bomb when they heard the news that Hiroshima was devastated by one B29 bomber. The Imperial Government soon dispatched scientists to Hiroshima who confirmed that it was an atomic bomb that had been used by checking residual radiation, for example, recorded in films in a camera shop.
To tell the truth, the Empire of Japan itself had a plan to develop a nuclear bomb. (Actually there were a few cyclotｒons in the Empire during WWII.) The best scientists of the Empire at the time were recruited for this project. One of them was Hideki Yukawa who received the first Nobel Prize for Physics for Japan in 1949.
However, after WWII, Yukawa never talked about his experience in joining the development of the Japanese-version of atomic bombs. Rather, Yukawa was invited to study in the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, the US. Where he met Albert Einstein. Einstein frequently talked with Yukawa and confessed how he had taken an initiative in recommending the US Government to develop atomic bombs as he had been afraid of Hitler so much.
Later Einstein and Yukawa planned peace movement together. Today, Yukawa was remembered by Japanese as a great scientist who sought the world peace earnestly after WWII but not as a member of the atomic-bomb development team led by the Imperial military during WWII.
However, it was J. Robert Oppenheimer that invited Yukuawa to Princeton after WWII, while Oppenheimer was in charge of development of nuclear bombs in the US during WWII. And it is said that Oppenheimer made some contribution to Yukawa's receiving of the Nobel Prize, though Yukawa's theory about mesons as a source of the force that combines a proton and a neutron in an atomic nucleus was one of the greatest attainments in the history of science.
So, the Hiroshima tragedy linked the Japanese greatest scientist, Hideki Yukawa, to Einstein and Oppenheimer in a peaceful way, probably, for future peace of the world, at least.
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