CNN Just Revealed It Was a B-52 That Dropped A bomb on Nagasaki in 1945!

CNN at aprox. 9:20 PM, CDST

[Tacis]

By accident, I stopped on CNN just as they were doing a story on the anniversary of the successful peace action at Nagasaki in 1945. They showed some older Japanese people as the female announcer, in a voice deep and wet with concern, told about today's moment of silence at 11:02 in commeration of the time in 1945 when "a B-52 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki."

[El Gato]

B-52, B-29, B-17, B-2, B-1 ... big bad planes flown by mean people who get pleasure out of bombing the little brown peoples of the world.

They of course neglect the uncomfortable fact that the B-17 was used to bomb larger fair skinned folk, many with blond hair and blue eyes. And the B-52 was designed to do the same to a different group of "non brown" people.

[Delta 21]

Definatly NOT depleated. Definatly.

[El Gato]

My Mom is "dating" a B-29 pilot.

Good for her! Tell I said so too.

[cynwoody]

Which bomb got dropped on Nagasaki, anyway? Was it "Person of Size, Self-Identified as of the Masculine Gender" or "Stature Challenged Pre-adult Male"?

The former, I think ...

10,800 pounds
10 ft, 8 in. long
5 ft in diameter

[Richard Axtell]

Nonsense! The B-52s would never play Nagasaki. The venue there is way too small. They would rather play the Tokyo Auditorium, where they would be warmed up by Hanoi Rocks.

[Libertina]

Stop with the CNN "brilliance," you're killing me! ROTFLOL

[buccaneer81]

"Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes or we're all dead."

---Admiral James T. Kirk

[risk]

A moment of silence for Mr. Alf Larson and his fellow prisoners please.

And while you're at it, please think of my uncle Lee, who died at 6:30am on July 27, 2003. He was a US Marine POW taken on Wake Island, and held for 44 months. He spoke to me of receiving rifle butt beatings every day of his imprisonment, often around his ankles or his abdomen -- just a strike here, or a strike there.

He lived to meet my aunt Bea, and together they had six wonderful children -- because he came home before he starved to death. He was liberated as soon as he was, because Japan surrendered after these atomic bombs forced them to end the insanity their heartless government had unleashed on the Pacific Rim on December 7th, 1941.

[ASA Vet]

LOL wouldn't surprise me. As G. Gordon Liddy would say,
"They don't even know which end of the gun the round comes out of!"

No he wouldn't. The "G" man doesn't end sentences with prepositions.
It's one of his pet peeves.

[cynwoody]

Wasn't Hiroshima the first time depleted uranium was used as a weapon?

I don't imagine it was depleted until a few microseconds in, by which time it didn't matter.

Depleted uranium (U238) is what's left over after separating out enriched uranium (U235, used in bombs and reactors). It is useful in antitank munitions, not because of any radioactive or explosive properties, but because its extreme density makes it especially effective at penetrating armor.

[ASA Vet]

ping

[DTwistedSisterS]

"Did they mention the pilot was an Israeli Air Force officer?"

Nono, you have it all wrong, they had a NAZI pilot drop the B-52... It gets so confusing, so I can understand:)

[CanadianLibertarian]

Nope. It was a B-29. Was the B-52 even in service then?

[bigj00]

star trek nerd!

[RickGee]

Yes, the pilot was Arnold Schwarzenegger's father; that's why Arnold can't become President unless he changes the law while he's governor.

[Spunky]

The U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, includes the gleaming silvery fuselage of a Maj. Charles Sweeney was the pilot of the B-29. Known as Bock's Car, the plane that carried the A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Nearby is a full-scale mockup of the plutonium bomb known as Fat Man.

Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. pilot of the Enola Gay B-29, which dropped the A-bomb over Hiroshima, has been restored and is to go on display late this year, when the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, opens near the Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.

[joanil]

Wow, that is a big boy!

[FlyVet]

No he wouldn't. The "G" man doesn't end sentences with prepositions. It's one of his pet peeves.

Thanks for the correction, nit-picker. Too much time on your hands?

[joanil]

Wow! I always thought that too but figured it was a obscure lookalike! She has been around cinema that long? I did not think she was that old!

[rockfish59]

1st bomb!

2nd bomb!