Have you ever wondered what communication would look like in the past if the mediums of communication we have today would have existed? Below I have simulated what the Twitter feed might have looked like during the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. I want to examine both sides of the situation, including tweets from both Americans and the Japanese.
It is important to remember this is only my take on what Twitter might have looked like if it existed then, and these rein no way historical fact.
@realhstruman: America, last night we had the largest break through on the western front to date. Pilots of the Enola Gay, performed a covert operation, dropping the largest bomb in history on the war industries plants in Hiroshima, Japan. @Hidekitojo Please for the sake o both our people, just give up.
@Hidekitojo: Japan, today we have suffered an atrocity, we have lost many of our brothers and sisters to the American scum. Fight to the last man.
@americaninfantryman: Can’t this war just end #iwannagohome
@americancitizen: Finally got a little payback for Pearl Harbor #deservedit
@memelord69: Lol accurate #quitalready
@japaneseman23: WE NEED SOME AID, where is @hidekitojo when you need him?
@realhstruman: Please, for the last time @hidekitojo, surrender.
@hidekitojo: We defend Japan for honor, never quit.
@Nagasakinews: A second bomb has been dropped. Please find shelter and avoid going outside. The burn clinic is now full. Find safety.
@realhstruman: American warned you @hidekitojo, we have plenty more where that came from. Just surrender.
@hidekitojo: Japan will be discussing our terms of surrender with @realhstruman. Pray for those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
@usnavyseaman: I’m coming home!!!!
@memelord69: Finally. #Tojoisabitch
@USmilitarywife: Finally get to see my husband again!!
@Japanesewife: I will never get to see my kids again. Please say a prayer.
Obviously, this whole scenario is over dramatized and has a bit of a satirical feel, but I think this at least would be somewhat what the twitter feeds would look like after the bombings in Japan at the end of World War II. Please understand I do not wish to demean of remove weight from the gravity of the atomic bombings. War is hell, and in times of war, atrocities will be committed. This is not a for or against the use of the atomic bomb post, but rather a social commentary of what humans were, and are like, and how humans of the past would communicate like the humans today.
