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HIROSHIMA REGRET: A-BOMB CREATOR RICHARD FEYNMAN IN TERRIFYING NUKE TEST
CONFESSION


HIROSHIMA WAS VICTIM TO A NUCLEAR ATTACK 75 YEARS AGO TODAY, WITH ONE OF THE
ATOMIC BOMB'S CREATORS, RICHARD FEYNMAN, DESCRIBING THE FIRST TIME HE SAW THE
BOMB BEING TESTED.

By Joel Day
09:20, Thu, Aug 6, 2020 | UPDATED: 11:51, Thu, Aug 6, 2020
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RICHARD FEYNMAN RECALLS WITNESSING A BOMB PROTOTYPE



Bells have tolled in Japan’s leafy city of Hiroshima, but memorial events were
scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic. On August 6, 1945, a US bomber
dropped the uranium bomb, or atomic bomb, above the city. It resulted in the
deaths of 140,000 people and generations of biological suffering.


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On Thursday morning, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the mayor of
Hiroshima joined bomb survivors and descendants in the city's Peace Park.



The park is usually packed to mark the event but attendance was visibly reduced
this year, with chairs spaced out and attendees wearing masks.

A moment's silence was held at 8:15am, the exact time the bomb was dropped on
the city.

The bomb was drawn-up by a team of scientists during World War 2 in New Mexico
in what became known as the Manhattan Project.





Hiroshima: The bomb was dropped 75 years ago today (Image: GETTY)



Atomic bomb: People pay their respects in Hiroshima's Peace Park (Image: GETTY)

Among those involved was Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman.

During the BBC’s documentary, 'The Fantastic Mr Feynman', the scientist revealed
shock at seeing what he and the others had created for the first time during a
test drop.

He said: “They gave out dark glasses so you could watch it.

“It was 20 miles away and you couldn’t see a damn thing through dark glasses.

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Richard Feynman: The physicist fell into a deep depression after the bomb's
creation (Image: GETTY)


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“I figured that bright light can never hurt your eye, it’s ultraviolet light
that does that.

“So I got behind a truck windshield, the ultraviolet can’t get through glass,
and I would be safe.

“I could see the damn thing.

“I’m about the only guy in the world who looked at the damn thing in the first
Trinity test.”

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Nuclear war: Hiroshima was left devastated in the aftermath of the bomb (Image:
GETTY)



World War 2: The Hiroshima bombing (left) and Nagasaki bombing (right) (Image:
GETTY)

Three weeks after the first test, the US military prepared to detonate the
second atom bomb: this time for real.

Professor Feynman had been expected, as the scientist, to go with the first
flight to Hiroshima to ensure nothing went wrong.

The bomb was so successful on its first test, however, that the pilots didn't
need a scientist.

Three days after Hiroshima was devastated, a second bomb was detonated over the
city of Nagasaki.

Here, some 100,000 people are estimated to have perished.

The attacks led to Japan’s declaration of surrender and the end of the war.

After the success of the bombs, Prof Feynman described celebrations as having
taken place at the New Mexico headquarters.



Nobel Prize: Feynman won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1965 (Image: GETTY)

He said: “There was a very considerable elation.

“Quite a lot of parties and people got drunk.

“It would make a tremendously interesting contrast of what was going on is Los
Alamos at the same time of what was going on in Hiroshima.”

Deeply disturbed by the mass bloodshed he had enabled, the atomic bomb would
stay with Prof Feynman for the rest of his life.





Japan news: The atomic bomb changed the face of war forever (Image: GETTY)


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He fell into a great depression, and admitted: “Maybe from just the bomb itself
and maybe for some other psychological reasons I had just lost my wife, I was
really in a depressive condition.”



His friend and fellow physicist Freeman Dyson noted: “He had had this great
triumph on the technical level at Los Alamos.

“But then of course, a terrible let-down afterwards.

“Having run this tremendous race and then at the end of it concluded that it
wasn’t all that worthwhile.”


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