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re: 80th anniversary of the first atomic bomb
Posted on 8/6/25 at 7:54 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Posted on 8/6/25 at 7:54 pm to UptownJoeBrown
She's hot ... in a geriatric kind of way?
If I were 80, I'd hit it.
If I were 80, I'd hit it.
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Posted on 8/6/25 at 7:58 pm to deltadummy
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Might want to read a little about the Japanese mindset. But it's the internet - we're all experts.
They were fricked because we had air and sea dominance. We cut them, off and they eventually die, or surrender. They had no leverage.
What else were they going to do?
Posted on 8/6/25 at 8:11 pm to Cuz413
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They were fricked because we had air and sea dominance. We cut them, off and they eventually die, or surrender. They had no leverage.
What else were they going to do?
How would they die if we "cut them off" and didn't end it abruptly?
Posted on 8/6/25 at 8:33 pm to Cuz413
and how many would have died in those raids - both Allied and Japanese?
I don't think our Allies were looking forward to more losses either...
I don't think our Allies were looking forward to more losses either...
Posted on 8/6/25 at 8:40 pm to Cuz413
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We cut them, off and they eventually die, or surrender. They had no leverage.
Thing is, Japanese troops were in China, Korea, Indo China,etc. that were still waging war. Millions of civilians were at risk of starvation. The world couldn't wait. It had to end.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 8:51 pm to bigjoe1
Most expensive batch of Rice Crispies ever.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:38 pm to bigjoe1
if this happened in 2025, fat asexual college students would be wearing the Japanese flag and putting on eyeliner to look Japanese. There'd be an #IStandWithJapan filter on socials.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:44 pm to bigjoe1
Except Little Boy wasn’t the first atomic bomb? 
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:46 pm to bigjoe1
So we now the US soldiers were fighting on behalf of the rest of Asia?
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:48 pm to TigersnJeeps
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I don't think our Allies were looking forward to more losses either...
By August, few US aircraft were shot down. The losses were piling up for the Japanese.and getting worse.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:48 pm to deltadummy
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How would they die if we "cut them off" and didn't end it abruptly?
Because they depended on food imports and basically abandoned all domestic production in 1944 and 1945 to divert to war production.
At the end of the war they had 1600 calories available per capita and it turned to a full blown crisis in the early years of occupation
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:50 pm to deltadummy
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How would they die if we "cut them off" and didn't end it abruptly?
Blockades. They were running short on fuel as it was.
Posted on 8/6/25 at 9:51 pm to bigjoe1
Posted on 8/6/25 at 10:19 pm to deltadummy
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Once the nucleus of atoms was discovered, the bomb was inevitable. Though, once the Scientific Enlightenment started, all scientific discoveries are somewhat inevitable
That is the hubris of man talking. How do we know we haven’t missed some discoveries and may never make them? There is no way to know.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 12:47 am to bigjoe1
I love the bomb. Greatest invention in history.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 6:59 am to bigjoe1
I recently read Paul Tibbet's book. The man was a great pilot and commander. He commanded and trained the group that ran the atomic bomb missions.
Impressive fact: Tibbets actual time of dropping the bomb was off from the planned time by 90 seconds. They flew 1,500 miles in a WWII era plane and was only off by 90 seconds.
Impressive fact: Tibbets actual time of dropping the bomb was off from the planned time by 90 seconds. They flew 1,500 miles in a WWII era plane and was only off by 90 seconds.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:38 am to Volvagia
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Because they depended on food imports and basically abandoned all domestic production in 1944 and 1945 to divert to war production.
At the end of the war they had 1600 calories available per capita and it turned to a full blown crisis in the early years of occupation
I'm aware of that, champ. Hence, the suggestion to the poster to research Japan's mentality.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:40 am to Cuz413
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Blockades. They were running short on fuel as it was.
Hence, my suggestion to research Japan's mentality since Japan had little supplies and would turn on each other for survival, requiring the use of the bomb to end the war 'abruptly'. You think the Japanese would say "give up" once they realized they were out of food? Hardly.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 7:47 am
Posted on 8/7/25 at 7:45 am to wareaglepete
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That is the hubris of man talking. How do we know we haven’t missed some discoveries and may never make them? There is no way to know.
Perhaps, but not really. Once the nucleus was discovered, people began conducting all kinds of experiments that were simple to carry out but yielded a ton of information. We were discovering the fundamentals of the atom at that time. The first real fission was a fairly simple activity, though it took a bit for them to figure out what had occurred. Science as a process works rather well.
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