If they hadn't started it we wouldn't have had to use nuclear weapons to end it.
Better put some ice on that.
The older carrier is Kitty Hawk. Does anyone know which Nimitz is going there?
The SOB's wouldn't be a nation today without our help and without living under our nuclear umbrella. Let 'em vent all they want, wait until someone attacks them and see what happens.
These people should shut up and take care of their 3 armed, one-eyed kids.
Our carriers are safer than some of the reactors the Japanese are running, so what's the big whoop?
In the meantime I will be protesting the ch****sh** bombing of Pearl Harbor, an unprovoked attack i might add. Who has the moral high ground here?
80? Heck, we had to go through crowds of protestors bigger than that at Yokosuka back in the 70's.
"....About 80 people - many of them victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - rallied against plans announced Friday by the U.S. Navy to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, said Kazutoshi Kajikawa, who heads the Hiroshima Peace Movement Center."
80 people? Sound like Japan will soon be OVERTHROWN..(rolling eyes)
I was on the Indy when we visited a port in Hokkaido. We were warned that there would be protestors, not to talk to them, not allow ourselves to be provoked. When we pulled into port the protestors were there as advertised 500 strong.....standing behind about 15,000 people that wanted a tour of the ship, all waving Japanese and American flags.
Well, given their NK and PRC neighbors, it would do them good to go nuclear themselves. When those NKers shot a rocket over Japan, it was supposed to arouse them from slumber.
I wonder if these "enlightened" activists would stage the same type of protest if a nuclear Iran threatened Japan in the same way that Iran threatened Israel lately.
And these nuclear engineering Einsteins think the carrier will just go off and blow up? They have as much technical depth as the US soccer moms that don't want "radioactive electricty" coming out the outlet if from a NUCLEAR power plant................
What?! We left some alive?
They were the generation that attacked Pearl Harbor. Now they attack with their stinking toiletas and honduhs.
Why is it that Nagasaki and Hiroshima were able to be re-inhabited after having an atomic weapon dropped on them? The libs would have you think that the fallout from one of these would make the area uninhabitable for thousands of years. I'm not trying to minimize the danger of nuclear or atomic weapons material, but is it really as bad as the leftists would have us believe? Is the spent fuel from our nuclear reactors as dangerous to us as well?
Would they protest gasoline powered trucks if they had been napalmed?
That's about a stupid a comment as I have ever heard.
As far as I know, the Nuclear Reactor Vessel from the "Thresher" is still alive and well, monitored and intact on the Atlantic Ocean floor. At depths far beyond what was caused the Nuclear Submarine's Pressure Hull to implode back in the 1960s.
The Japanese can protest. That won't stop the basing of Nuclear Carriers, their Task Forces and the odd Old or Re-built and Modified Boomers; while the Chinese and North Koreans can worry politically.
Sounds like a fair trade-off to me.
Jack.
Screw 'em if they can't take a joke.