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Silent Nagasaki (“Raw” Footage of the Loading of the Fat Man Bomb)
Nuclear Secrecy ^
| February 7th, 2014
| Alex Wellerstein
Posted on 02/08/2014 10:37:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I don’t think I can watch it right now-—too disturbing.
That said,I was in my early teens when the bombs were dropped and we all cheered.
War is hell.
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:42:18 AM PST
by
Mears
To: SkyPilot; rodguy911; mosaicwolf; tet68; Kathy in Alaska; Yehuda; nutmeg; Clintonfatigued; ...
To: nickcarraway
I recently saw “The Wolverine” and the Hollywood version of the Nagasaki bombing. I wonder how realistic that was? Anyway, nuclear explosions are cool from a safe distance. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets, in any case, intentionally set within civilian populations by the Japanese.
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:45:24 AM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:45:49 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
You can say that again.
My Dad was to turn 18 in November of 1945 and thanks to High School ROTC he was a qualified pilot with four years of experience in gliders and powered flight. If not for the bomb he probably would have been flying in the invasion of Japan.
To: dfwgator
Thank God for the Bomb.
Giant mega ditto on that - if we hadn't used the nukes, my Dad would likely have been killed during the invasion and I would not be sitting here today.
My father never knowingly purchased any Japanese products and referred to them as Japs until his dying day.
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:51:24 AM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon; windage and elevation.)
To: The Free Engineer
And probably fighting in the “Japanese War”, when Red “North Japan” invaded “South Japan.”
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:51:49 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Mears
You want disturbing? Read the accounts from Navy salvage divers who had to go down into ships like the Oklahoma, the Arizona and the West Virgina at Pearl Harbor and remove the bodies of all those young kids who went down with those ships.
That bomb saved my late father-in-laws life. He was a Marine wounded on Iwo Jima and were it not for that bomb he and millions of other American kids might not have lived to see their next birthday. I'm one American who is sick and f**king tired of hearing this bs about how horrible the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were. America didn't want war but Japan did and they paid the price for it. Do you think if the Japs had such a weapon and possessed it on Dec.7.1941 they would have hesitated to use it? F'ing world gets all weepy every time August 6th. and 9th. rolls around but it never gets weepy on Dec.7.
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:52:20 AM PST
by
jmacusa
("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
To: The Free Engineer
Ditto
My father was an aviation cadet due to graduate in Sept 1945
He was to pilot a B29.........
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:56:42 AM PST
by
njslim
(T)
To: nickcarraway
Still remembering the guy who died recently. He was at Hiroshima when it was bombed. He survived and headed home to Nagasaki. Survived that one too. What a bad week.
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:59:35 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: jmacusa
jmacusa said:
"Do you think if the Japs had such a weapon and possessed it on Dec.7.1941 they would have hesitated to use it? " Perhaps even more to the point, if Japan had such a weapon would they have hesitated to use it in August of 1945?
I think not.
To: nickcarraway
Thanks for posting! My best friend’s late father-in-law loaded the first one. I’ve gotta show him this one and see if he sees the guy.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:06:25 AM PST
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: Starstruck
To: William Tell
I believe it was Saburo Sakai, Japans leading air ace who said he fully understood Americas decision to use the bomb. He said had he or any other Japanese soldier had been ordered to do so they would have done the same without question.. Battles and wars are won as Confederate General Jubal Early put it ''By he who gets there firstist with the mostist''. We got there first and thank God we did.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:12:26 AM PST
by
jmacusa
("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
To: Starstruck; nickcarraway
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:12:36 AM PST
by
BraveMan
To: nickcarraway
I found the commentary interesting. The “Trinity and Beyond” movies were good, but I see the benefit of the silent films.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:17:53 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: Starstruck
What a bad week.
Supposedly, about 125 high-value workers were railroaded from the aftermath of Hiroshima to Nagasaki just in time to experience it all over again.
To: BraveMan
Battles and wars are won as Confederate General Jubal Early put it ''By he who gets there firstist with the mostist'' That was CSA GEN Nathaniel Bedford Forrest who said that. And he was educated enough to use proper English.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:19:10 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: dainbramaged
Giant mega ditto on that - if we hadn't used the nukes, my Dad would likely have been killed during the invasion and I would not be sitting here today. Didn't know that about you but it's certainly true for me and many others. People still look at me like I have two heads when I say, "Thank God for the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:23:40 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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