{"id":3271,"date":"2017-08-11T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2017-08-12T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T16:40:15","slug":"atomic-bomb-blast-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2017\/08\/11\/atomic-bomb-blast-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Of The Atomic Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/children-atomic-bomb-blast-e1502551307928.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3272\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/children-atomic-bomb-blast-e1502551307928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An explosion so terrible, a flash so blindingly bright, I thought the world had ended,&#8221; expressed Shin&#8217;s father. &#8220;Then, just a quickly, everything went black.&#8221; 3-year-old Shin was missing. Father frantically searched for him among the wreckage and found Shin pinned under a house beam, badly hurt. &#8220;His face was bleeding and swollen&#8230; Everyone was burned, and they were crying moaning and screaming for water&#8230; All around, people were dying when they drank water,&#8221; Shin&#8217;s father said. &#8220;So, I didn&#8217;t dare give him any.&#8221; Shin did not survive the night. ~ except from<a href=\"https:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/2015\/images\/07\/31\/shin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0&#8220;Shin&#8217;s Tricycle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How many little Shins died in Hiroshima? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research indicates<\/a> that 70,000\u2013126,000 civilians died along with 20,000 soldiers. In other words, 4 to 7 non-combatants like 3-year-old Shin died for every Japanese soldier lost. Such has been the tragedy ever since, with children, mothers, and the elderly bearing most of the indescribable pain of modern warfare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aasc.ucla.edu\/cab\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States nuclear capability<\/a> is some 2,400\u00a0 megatons &#8211; equaling Hiroshima x 159,000 &#8211; and along with eight other countries the world now possess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ploughshares.org\/world-nuclear-stockpile-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14,900\u00a0nuclear weapons<\/a>. What does this say about today&#8217;s threat towards children like Shin, towards the one-year old playing right now on my lap?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;An explosion so terrible, a flash so blindingly bright, I thought the world had ended,&#8221; expressed Shin&#8217;s father. &#8220;Then, just a quickly, everything went black.&#8221; 3-year-old Shin was missing. Father frantically searched for him among the wreckage and found Shin pinned under a house beam, badly hurt. &#8220;His face was bleeding and swollen&#8230; Everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}