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Was America Evil to Drop Atomic Bombs on Japan?
The Intellectual Takeout ^ | May 1, 2024 | Kurt Mahlburg

Posted on 05/04/2024 7:00:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: chopperk

The “dumbass” would be Tucker Carlson…please see the article’s first two sentences.


261 posted on 05/05/2024 9:30:17 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: Elsie

Yes, and I hope that everyone repented at last, on all sides.

Let him who is without sin, cast te first stone.
Amen.


262 posted on 05/05/2024 11:00:34 PM PDT by Menes
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To: linMcHlp
Before the Normandy invasion in June 1944, detailed and reliable ground information describing the extent of damage done to Germany’s industrial base by the combined allied bomber offensive was not generally available.

Now we can 'know' nearly as soon as the smoke clears. Sometimes even before!

263 posted on 05/06/2024 3:36:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Menes

...as well as those with NO dog in the fight.


264 posted on 05/06/2024 3:37:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: alexander_busek

I stand corrected and chastised.

By the way, I no longer consider Wikipedia a valid source of information.


265 posted on 05/06/2024 6:13:43 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: Redleg Duke
By the way, I no longer consider Wikipedia a valid source of information.

That's why I emphasized that it is suitable only for fact-checking simple, uncontroversial statements.

Sometimes my memory needs jogging - "Is one parsec 3.26 light-years, or 3.25 light-years?" "Was 'Fat Man' a plutonium bomb, or a uranium bomb?" etc.) - and for that purpose, Wikipedia is adequate.

Regards,

266 posted on 05/06/2024 8:09:35 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Hello Mr. Busek :-),

you are right that Wikipedia has to be used with extreme caution, especially in matters of politics.

Still, I think it does have its merits in providing information on the popular culture of our time; this is something I am hardly versed in. Thus, I often rely on Wikipedia for that purpose.

A pleasant evening to you :-)


267 posted on 05/06/2024 10:08:29 AM PDT by Menes
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To: Reeses

Japan fascinates me.


268 posted on 05/06/2024 7:27:29 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico. )
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To: ealgeone

My departed father in law was in Patton’s Third Army. When the Bomb dropped, he was already at an Army base on the site of today’s Vandenberg Air Force base... training to go to the invasion of Japan.


269 posted on 05/07/2024 7:56:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. and hopes they could forc)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Does anyone ever pose this question to the Chinese, Koreans, et al. in Asia? They probably cheered at the time.


270 posted on 05/09/2024 8:49:23 AM PDT by Cecily ( )
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To: DoodleBob

Bill Whittle
The True Story of the Atomic Bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fbDgAQA22s
Aug 6, 2023
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the Second World War. Don’t take my word for it: hear it from the lips of the one person capable of making that decision. Recorded in 2009.


271 posted on 05/18/2024 7:08:43 PM PDT by Valin
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