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Posted on 8/6/22 at 8:38 pm to sabes que
quote:I remember when South of BR was called "Cancer Alley" and no one wanted to live there. Now people are moving there in droves
Must not have been that bad if people still willingly moved/lived there
I wonder what convinced them to move out of BR?
Posted on 8/6/22 at 8:40 pm to sabes que
By the time they cleaned the shite up the radiation was basically gone. It doesn’t linger for years
Posted on 8/6/22 at 8:43 pm to sabes que
Ok so, we need some OT physicists. Air burst of nuclear weapons reduces radioactive fallout. Much more so than a ground burst. And then these were small bombs with a limited amount of nuclear material. And yes, there were many casualties from radiation sickness in Japan.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 9:35 pm to sabes que
They should have nuked fukashima.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 9:44 pm to sabes que
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Makes sense, but still doesn’t explain why the radiation didn’t have a bigger impact than it did.
Read a fricking book.
BTW reading that guy's story, it sounded like he lived through absolute hell for those 4 days.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 9:46 pm to sabes que
Moderna showed up on VJ day with the Atomic Bomb vaccine.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 9:59 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
quote:Here you go
Ok so, we need some OT physicists. Air burst of nuclear weapons reduces radioactive fallout. Much more so than a ground burst. And then these were small bombs with a limited amount of nuclear material. And yes, there were many casualties from radiation sickness in Japan.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects
LINK https://k1project.columbia.edu/news/hiroshima-and-nagasaki
Posted on 8/6/22 at 10:13 pm to White Roach
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"No, I don't feel guilty. We've been killing a quarter of a million a night since March on firebomb raids. More planes and more bombs, but with the same results. I've been used to it."
This is true. The firebombing of Tokyo killed as many as Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 11:41 pm to Macavity92
The Americans killed about a quarter of a million in one night in the first week of March, '45. But LeMay was methodically firebombing every city in Japan, surely killing hundreds of thousands, not over a million. He just hadn't gotten to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Niigata and a few others by August yet. He was a ruthless bastard.
If the weather was right, he was firebombing. The campaign lasted months.
If the weather was right, he was firebombing. The campaign lasted months.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 1:05 am to White Roach
Same thing with Dresden, but Germany did that to London first. War isn’t something to be glorified, it’s abhorrent.
Posted on 8/7/22 at 1:51 am to Pepperoni
What about the guy who said people actually lived longer in these areas?
Posted on 8/7/22 at 2:08 am to BowlJackson
Man you’re so smart, tell us how many nukes will destroy the planet? How many would it take?
Posted on 8/7/22 at 2:40 am to sabes que
Coventry, that's the town you're thinking of, I think. London was obviously bombed during the war, but the Coventry raid produced a large number of civilian casualties on one day. I think it was something like 30,000 killed, wounded or missing.
ETA: I'm a mile off on my Coventry causality figure. I just Wikipediad and there were 17 raids btwn Sept and Nov 1940. Total causality figures were probably close to 5,000 to 8,000.
The Dresden raids - they went on all night and part of the day for 2 or 3 days - were like 3 or 4 years after Coventry. But the British and "Bomber" Harris felt like they owed one (more) to the Germans. The Americans were involved in the daylight raids, but by and large, the was a British Bomber Command operation.
They killed a shitload of civilians. Estimates vary, but 40,000 to 60,000 is in the realm of accurate possibilities.
ETA: I'm a mile off on my Coventry causality figure. I just Wikipediad and there were 17 raids btwn Sept and Nov 1940. Total causality figures were probably close to 5,000 to 8,000.
The Dresden raids - they went on all night and part of the day for 2 or 3 days - were like 3 or 4 years after Coventry. But the British and "Bomber" Harris felt like they owed one (more) to the Germans. The Americans were involved in the daylight raids, but by and large, the was a British Bomber Command operation.
They killed a shitload of civilians. Estimates vary, but 40,000 to 60,000 is in the realm of accurate possibilities.
This post was edited on 8/7/22 at 2:58 am
Posted on 8/7/22 at 5:42 am to sabes que
Japanese leaders make communist Chinese leaders look like throwbacks.
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