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On this day in 1945, the city of Nagasaki is wiped off the face of the earth...
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:22 am
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:22 am
By a plutonium bomb dropped from the B-29 Superfortress known as Bockscar. The resulting explosion releases a yield estimated at 23 kilotons that shot this now iconic mushroom cloud into the sky high above the city:
It is estimated that the bomb killed between 60,000-80,000 people.
It is estimated that the bomb killed between 60,000-80,000 people.
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 6:31 am
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Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:26 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:28 am to Proximo
Bockscar
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:29 am to RollTide1987
The ultimate FAFO moment in history
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:30 am to RollTide1987
FAFO
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:30 am to RollTide1987
Bawkscar
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:32 am to RollTide1987
Mass murder done by the United States government
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:35 am to Hayekian serf
Murder and war is one of the things that humans have perfected sadly. And the beat goes on.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:35 am to Hayekian serf
That didn’t take long. Always a few people like you.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:36 am to Hayekian serf
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Mass murder done by the United States government
You're not wrong. However, the circumstances being what they were, there would have been mass murder done by our government no matter which option we would have chosen in regards to Japan in 1945:
1. Invasion - would lead to mass murder
2. Blockade - would lead to mass murder
3. Bombing - would lead to mass murder
4. Soviet invasion - would lead to mass murder
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:38 am to Hayekian serf
It’s called war. Don’t start shite, there won’t be shite.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:38 am to RollTide1987
1. Invasion - would lead to mass murder/mass rape
2. Blockade - would lead to mass murder
3. Bombing - would lead to mass murder
4. Soviet invasion - would lead to mass murder/mass rape
FIFY
2. Blockade - would lead to mass murder
3. Bombing - would lead to mass murder
4. Soviet invasion - would lead to mass murder/mass rape
FIFY
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:38 am to RollTide1987
Bend the knee
Edit: not sure why this is getting downvoted…. I meant it was the US as saying submit and surrender or we will decimate your entire country and make you wish you’d never done Pearl Harbor
Edit: not sure why this is getting downvoted…. I meant it was the US as saying submit and surrender or we will decimate your entire country and make you wish you’d never done Pearl Harbor
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 9:00 am
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:39 am to RollTide1987
Conventional firebombing of Tokyo killed more than either A bomb
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:39 am to RollTide1987
It's fascinating to me that so many peoples fates that day and at Hiroshima were so tied to the weather.
More cloud cover here or less there and today no one would really know the name of either city.
More cloud cover here or less there and today no one would really know the name of either city.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:40 am to RollTide1987
We also had to prove to Stalin that we had the bomb and were willing to use it.
Otherwise he may have rolled through Europe and the rest of Asia
Otherwise he may have rolled through Europe and the rest of Asia
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:42 am to Cosmo
Seeing this revisionist history that the Japanese were trying to surrender. BS.
They wanted to keep their remaining conquered lands and for the emperor to stay in power.
That’s not a surrender. Even after Nagasaki, the war cabinet tried to stage a coup to keep fighting
They wanted to keep their remaining conquered lands and for the emperor to stay in power.
That’s not a surrender. Even after Nagasaki, the war cabinet tried to stage a coup to keep fighting
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:43 am to Tridentds
quote:
It's fascinating to me that so many peoples fates that day and at Hiroshima were so tied to the weather.
More cloud cover here or less there and today no one would really know the name of either city.
Nagasaki was actually the backup target in case of weather. Kokura was the primary second target.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:43 am to Tridentds
More cloud cover here or less there and today no one would really know the name of either city.
—-on Aug 9, Kokura was the primary target but cloudy conditions there shifted the mission to Nagasaki.
Cloud cover mattered bc the photo unit wanted to have clear documentation of the bomb’s effects.
—-on Aug 9, Kokura was the primary target but cloudy conditions there shifted the mission to Nagasaki.
Cloud cover mattered bc the photo unit wanted to have clear documentation of the bomb’s effects.
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