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Ryan Crierie brings us an illustrated guide to the atomic bombs dropped during World War II. Compared to their shocking destructive power, their small size is amazing (and a little frightening).
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An Illustrated Guide to the Atomic Bombs
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Chicken Little only has to be right once.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 02 2015, @05:39AM
The men were fighting, the women were working in armaments industries. They depended on China, Korea and the Philippines for their food supplies but the US Navy had them blockaded.
I am completely convinced that the war would have ended quickly had we not dropped the bombs.
There are some who claim that we bombed Japan to impress the Soviet Union.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday January 02 2015, @09:14AM
Might want to look up the pics from the training video of Japanese soldiers teaching little kids to be suicide bombers with grenades on sticks and rethink that position. My great uncle fought in the Pacific and said they were as fanatical as any religious zealot today. He was a marine on one of the islands (may have been Guadalcanal, it was 40 years ago when he told me this) and they had scavenged "Ma Deuce" 50 cals off of everything, busted planes, busted patrol boats, he said they ended up with so many 50 cals if it moved it had a 50 cal or four mounted on it.
But he said the Japs would just keep right on doing those damned Banzai charges, even though it was a waste of lives and had zero chance, the 50s would just grind 'em up and damned if they wouldn't do it again. he said when you landed on a Jap island you had no choice but to kill every last one as they wouldn't stop, you could be surrounding a single wounded Jap with 30 Americans with rifles pointed right at him and damned if he wouldn't pull the pin on a grenade and lunge at you, which is why they had to shoot wounded Japs on the battlefield, they'd hide a grenade next to them and when you leaned over to render aid? They'd set it off.
That was one thing my grandfather who fought in Europe and my great uncle who fought in the Pacific agreed on, how truly senseless and insane the last year of the war was. It was obvious there was ZERO chance of Germany and Japan winning or even stopping the advance but they just got more fanatical, you'd end up having to shoot old folks, kids, even pregnant women because they would be out there trying to blow you away or being suicide bombers, it was truly mass insanity. They both believed to their dying day invading Japan would have been FAR worse than Germany, because the emperor was a god to them. You compare how many surrendered on the islands versus say how many Germans surrendered to the allies? Yeah sorry, the Japanese would have fought to their very last. Remember that the japs had to stop 2 of their generals AFTER the bombs had fallen from getting on the radio and dismissing their surrender! They tried to force their way into the radio station to call on the people to fight to the very last man rather than give up after being nuked twice, THAT is how fanatical we are talking here friend.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.