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Italian firm goes nuclear with atomic toys
MSNBC ^ | Updated: 9:02 a.m. ET Feb. 24, 2006 | By Roland Jones

Posted on 02/24/2006 12:21:07 PM PST by butternut_squash_bisque

Those of us who enjoy military history usually just switch on the History Channel for our daily fix of guts, gore and armed conflict. But if you’re a serious war buff, and you want to relive one of the most horrifying moments in the deadliest war in human history, an Italian toy maker has just the thing.

Brumm recently unveiled miniature models of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” Those names may conjure up images of cuddly cartoon characters, but they’re actually the codenames for two atomic bombs that the U.S. military dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: atom; atombomb; atomic; atomicbomb; bomb; fatboy; fatman; hiroshima; littleboy; littleman; nagasaki; nuclear; nuke; nukes; nukular; wwii
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

Kewl! Who will be selling them in the U.S.?


21 posted on 02/24/2006 12:34:36 PM PST by Clioman
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hey!


22 posted on 02/24/2006 12:35:08 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: underwiredsupport

I hope these are not the models colors.


23 posted on 02/24/2006 12:35:39 PM PST by Pontiac (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of your rights can be fatal.)
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To: tet68

I'd like one for a hood ornament on my Jeep. Remember the Pontiac Chieftain (or something) back in the 50s, which had the hood ornament that lit up at night?


24 posted on 02/24/2006 12:35:54 PM PST by butternut_squash_bisque (Borders, Language, Culture™)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

No problem. Just that FR is often the first place to find things and many people only use it for the breaking news. A good rule of thumb is to never post to breaking news unless it's "Jesus Returns" or "Deathstar Reported in Earth Orbit." If it is truely "breaking news" somebody else will move it.

BTW, I know we just had this conversation privately. This response is for Tijeras_Slim and other newbie lurkers.


25 posted on 02/24/2006 12:38:45 PM PST by presidio9 ("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

It's probably a good idea at this point to confess my ongoing weakness for jokes involving Zero Wing schtick.


26 posted on 02/24/2006 12:39:30 PM PST by RichInOC (TUTTA LA VOSTRA BASE È APPARTIENE A NOI. HA HA HA HA....)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque
Alas, nearly 90 percent of Americans can't name the four presidential faces carved into the monument.

This is why our government has strayed so far from what the Founders intended. They don't teach this stuff in school anymore. God help us, but we don't even know who we are anymore.
27 posted on 02/24/2006 12:39:48 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: Pontiac; All

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28 posted on 02/24/2006 12:41:44 PM PST by underwiredsupport (...for the shape of things to come!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Mrs. Slim has a pair.

As does Mrs. Jest. Which she has been known to wear once or twice during the month of August.

29 posted on 02/24/2006 12:41:50 PM PST by surely_you_jest
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To: Clioman

The article mentions Brumm as the manufacturer. Her's a link to some of their products:

http://www.motorsportcollector.com/MODbrumm.html


30 posted on 02/24/2006 12:47:03 PM PST by butternut_squash_bisque (Borders, Language, Culture™)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

Cool!


31 posted on 02/24/2006 12:55:18 PM PST by pabianice (contact ebay??)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque
The bombs were detonated above the Japanese cities in August 1945, killing tens of thousands of Japanese civilians, and thousands more would later die as a result of nuclear fallout and from cancer.

Strange. No mention of the tens of thousands of Japanese troops also killed... /sarcasm

32 posted on 02/24/2006 12:57:05 PM PST by pabianice (contact ebay??)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque

They're 1:43 scale. Why in the world did they pick 1:43? They aren't the same scale as anything that I've ever built. I've built planes in 1:32, 1:35, 1:48, 1:72, but never even SEEN anything in 1:43.

Dumb.


33 posted on 02/24/2006 12:58:15 PM PST by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque
Not surprisingly, Brumm has been roundly condemned for making the atomic toys. Critics say they are in poor taste,

A Brumm spokesman said the company was only trying to do its bit for world history, protesting “against the insanity of nuclear-war” according to a report in the U.K.’s Scottish Daily Record.

What people (especially liberals) fail to appreciate about nuclear weapons is that nuclear weapons have more than likely prevented the deaths of uncounted millions by deterring the expansion of Communism and by preventing a war between the Soviet Union and the United States that undoubtedly would have shortly followed WW II.

Nuclear weapons are presently preventing war between Pakistan and India also between Israel and the rest of the Middle East.

Yes Nuclear war would be insane and that is exactly why Nuclear Weapons are so effective in preventing war. Only an insane people would ever chance initiating one.

Nuclear weapons are the only truly the most moral weapons ever produced.

34 posted on 02/24/2006 12:58:54 PM PST by Pontiac (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of your rights can be fatal.)
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To: butternut_squash_bisque
“With the faithful scale reproductions of ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy,’ we plan to provide a small historical contribution so as not to forget what generated the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.”

More left-wing codswallop. Actually, these two bombs ended the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.

35 posted on 02/24/2006 1:01:51 PM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: JamesP81

Spot on, J. In the 50s and early 60s, we were immersed in American History which is almost gone from the schools' cirriculum, these days.


36 posted on 02/24/2006 1:04:09 PM PST by butternut_squash_bisque (Borders, Language, Culture™)
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To: underwiredsupport
This is the model I want.

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37 posted on 02/24/2006 1:05:26 PM PST by Pontiac (Ignorance of the law is no excuse, ignorance of your rights can be fatal.)
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To: Pontiac
Nuclear weapons are the only truly the most moral weapons ever produced.

I would venture to say that no weapon is possessed of any morality, good or bad. It is the use to which the weapon is put, and more precisely, the men who decide that use, that imputes the moral cast.

38 posted on 02/24/2006 1:06:33 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Cincinatus

>>Actually, these two bombs ended the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.

Actually, I think it would be pretty hard to argue that these bombs ends Soviet Communism, which was responsible for the deaths of over 60 million souls.

They did keep it from expanding and taking more, though, as someone has already noted.


39 posted on 02/24/2006 1:08:55 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: FreedomPoster

/ends/ended/


40 posted on 02/24/2006 1:09:25 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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