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The world entered the Atomic Age on this day 75 years ago...
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:20 am
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:20 am
At 5:29 AM, in the desert of New Mexico, the scientists and military servicemen of the ultra secret Manhattan Project watched as the first atomic bomb - code-named Trinity - was set off. It exploded with the force of 22 kilotons of TNT, vaporizing the steel tower it was attached to and melting the sand in the immediate area of the blast, turning much of it to glass. For one or two seconds after detonation, the area was lit up at many times magnitude brighter than the sun. Within hours of this successful test, President Harry Truman made the decision to send the Japanese an ultimatum - surrender unconditionally or face great judgement. He would use this bomb on the Empire of Japan if it meant avoiding a land invasion.
YouTube - Color Footage of the "Trinity" Test
YouTube - Color Footage of the "Trinity" Test
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Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:22 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:23 am to RollTide1987
And on a related note the USS Indianapolis departed San Francisco on its final mission.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:27 am to RollTide1987
Could you imagine seeing something that powerful for the first time?
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:27 am to RollTide1987
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:30 am to RollTide1987
"What the hell was that?"
Must of been a sonic boom......
My Dad would have been back in the Pacific if not for the bomb. Thanks!
Must of been a sonic boom......
My Dad would have been back in the Pacific if not for the bomb. Thanks!
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:34 am to RollTide1987
Old, very non-PC joke:
Who said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”? FDR
Who said, “We choose to go to the moon....”—JFK
Who said, “What was THAT?”
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The mayor of Hiroshima
Who said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”? FDR
Who said, “We choose to go to the moon....”—JFK
Who said, “What was THAT?”
—
The mayor of Hiroshima
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:35 am to ItzMe1972
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My Dad would have been back in the Pacific if not for the bomb. Thanks!
My grandfather swore until he died he wouldn't have survived a land invasion of Japan had the bomb never existed. His unit was assigned a position in the third wave of the assault on Kyushu. As it so happened, that was where the bulk of the Japanese defenses had been placed for a theoretical invasion of the home islands.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:37 am to RollTide1987
This post was edited on 7/16/20 at 11:39 am
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:37 am to RollTide1987
My grandfather swore until he died he wouldn't have survived a land invasion of Japan
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Plenty of us would not be around if not for the bomb.
Thanks Harry Truman for using it!
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Plenty of us would not be around if not for the bomb.
Thanks Harry Truman for using it!
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:39 am to northshorebamaman
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And on a related note the USS Indianapolis departed San Francisco on its final mission.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:39 am to RollTide1987
It’s depressing and humbling that humanity’s greatest scientific achievement was created to kill as many of ourselves possible.
And yes we should have dropped the bomb, which only strengthens my point.
And yes we should have dropped the bomb, which only strengthens my point.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:44 am to ItzMe1972
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Thanks Harry Truman for using it!
Allied casualty estimates were 1,000,000 soldiers killed or wounded. The War Department put in a gigantic order for Purple Hearts just for the invasion of mainland Japan. Since we didn't have to invade, World War II vintage Purple Hearts were being handed out as recently as the war in Afghanistan.
The Japanese should be kissing Truman's arse as well, because if it were not for the bomb, their leadership would have led them down a path of total destruction. If the Allies invaded, tens of millions of Japanese would have been killed. Every village, town, and city would have been one Stalingrad after another. If we had invaded, would Japan be the economic powerhouse that it is today? Hell no, not with the islands razed from one end to the other.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:45 am to RollTide1987
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My grandfather swore until he died he wouldn't have survived a land invasion of Japan had the bomb never existed. His unit was assigned a position in the third wave of the assault on Kyushu. As it so happened, that was where the bulk of the Japanese defenses had been placed for a theoretical invasion of the home islands.
Could you imagine fighting in Europe, in battles like the Battle of the Bulge, feeling the joy of seeing the German surrender....then getting orders to redeploy to the Pacific to participate in Operation Coronet in 1946?
How could a man handle that?
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:46 am to Cold Drink
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humanity’s greatest scientific achievement
I would say landing a man on the moon would pass over the splitting of the atom for the #1 position but to each their own.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:52 am to RollTide1987
humanity’s greatest scientific achievement
I would say landing a man on the moon would pass over the splitting of the atom for the #1 position but to each their own.
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I nominate the light bulb!
I would say landing a man on the moon would pass over the splitting of the atom for the #1 position but to each their own.
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I nominate the light bulb!
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:54 am to RollTide1987
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ultra secret Manhattan Project
I mean...the Soviets knew it was going on the entire time basically.
Posted on 7/16/20 at 11:55 am to RollTide1987
I went to the site last year. There are still elevated but safe radiation levels all these years later.
There are also still pebbles of trinitite glass in the sand that I could see. In the past, people used to take them so they could have mildly radioactive souvenirs.
There are also still pebbles of trinitite glass in the sand that I could see. In the past, people used to take them so they could have mildly radioactive souvenirs.
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