Dawn of a Thousand Suns - Bockscar Over Nagasaki
by Randy Green
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Title
Dawn of a Thousand Suns - Bockscar Over Nagasaki
Artist
Randy Green
Medium
Painting - Oils On Portrait Canvas
Description
Dawn of a Thousand Suns - Bockscar Over Nagasaki
393rd Bombardment Squadron, 509th Composite Group B29-45-MO "Bockscar" Drops the Fat-Man Atomic Weapon on 9 August 1945.
On August 9th, 1945 at 29,500 feet over the Urakami Valley, near the city of Nagasaki, the second act of atomic age unfolded. The primary target had been Kokura, Japan, but smoke and haze from the previous night's raid on the neighboring city of Yawata obscured the city and saved it from annihilation. After several unsuccessful bomb runs orders were to only drop visually and a critical fuel situation, Aircraft Commander Major Chuck Sweeney diverted to the secondary target, the city of Nagasaki. Until then, Nagasaki had led an almost charmed life in war-time Japan, relatively untouched by the bombings her fellow cities had suffered. Sweeney issued the order for only one pass on Nagasaki, their fuel dangerous low before they would have to head for Okinawa.
A last-minute break in the clouds over Nagasaki, at 11:01 AM local time, allowed Bockscar's bombardier Captain Kermit Beahan to visually sight the target as ordered. The "Fat-Man" weapon, containing a core of about 14-pounds of plutonium, was dropped over the city's industrial valley at 32.77372˚N, 129.86325˚E. Exactly 47 seconds later, at 1,650 feet above a tennis court halfway between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works in the south and the Nagasaki Arsenal in the north, the bomb exploded, The blast was nearly 1.9 miles northwest of the planned hypocenter and confined to the Urakami Valley District. The explosion generated heat estimated at 7,050˚F and winds that were over 624 mph. A major portion of the city was protected from the destruction because of the intervening hills, whereas 70,000 people near the hypocenter vanished instantly. Faced with an imminent ground invasion and a "Rain of Ruin" from the air, Japan capitulated on August 15th, 1945.
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Comments (8)
Sharyn Winters
Brings back sad memories of what we felt we had to do. Your depiction is indeed powerful. Congrats on the sale.
Douglas Castleman
I agree with Ken here, this is a great, and powerful painting.To me, this second atomic bomb drop was even more tragic than the first. You would think one would be enough. Terrible that it took this second bomb, as well as the Soviet atttack in Manchuria, to finally convince the Emperor to end the war.
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