Tags for this video have been changed from 'Richard Feynman, Atomic Bomb, Manhattan Project' to 'Richard Feynman, Atomic Bomb, Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapons' - edited by calvados

Tags for this video have been changed from 'atomic bomb, duck and cover, 50s, cold war, bert the turtle' to 'atomic bomb, duck and cover, 50s, psa, cold war, bert the turtle' - edited by calvados

Tags for this video have been changed from 'atomic bomb, duck and cover, 50s' to 'atomic bomb, duck and cover, 50s, cold war, bert the turtle' - edited by calvados

Two things I 100% agree on here, and have made as points myself before -

Truman committed genocide, there's no way about it. An offshore demonstration of the power of the atomic bomb would have sufficed. The second bombing on Nagasaki just 3 days later was also utterly inexplicable given the declaration of war on Japan by Russia following the first bombing and the seeming inevitability of surrender.

If the barometer for torture either by waterboarding, walling or stress positions or sleep deprivations is whether it may save American lives, then let all the proponents of it agree to incorporate it into the domestic legal system. If not they're hypocrites at best and racists/xenophobes at worst.

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I just want to go ahead and apologize for what I did yesterday. I posted to sift-talk an innovative, never-before-seen scientific analysis of a half dozen economic indicators. burturgler at the time commented that "I put all these graphs together and got this: <inserts posts of atom bomb exploding>" At the time I was irritated at this trolling, but would like to go ahead and state that burdturgler, I am sorry, you are truly a prophet! The amount of scientific badass-ness was apparently too much for VideoSift's database and it exploded just as the prophet burdturgler (praise be upon him) predicted.

Again I am very sorry.

Much like the atomic bomb and resurrecting dinosaurs in jurassic park... we sometimes have regrets when we are...back with a brand new invention

As an excuse, it wasn't his fault...something had grabbed a hold of him tightly. Would it ever stop? He didn't know.

>> ^boksinx:
how about acting like you're dropping atomic bomb or something?


cough sorry. gomen ne.


Yeah maybe that would freak people out. But how the hell would you act that one out? I think it would be more freaky that someone was capable of miming such an expression and making it clearly understandable. daijoubu.

how about acting like you're dropping atomic bomb or something?





*cough* sorry. gomen ne.

Sorry to bear bad news but this is up a couple of times already

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hiroshima-Atomic-Bomb-Reenactment

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hiroshima-A-Chilling-Recreation-BBC-Documentary

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But isn't that what they said about a man on the moon as well? or the atomic bomb? I think if we put the effort and energy will be doable for 2020. We just need to make it a priority. I will even support a partner ship with EU as a world priority one project.

. . . and then you come strolling blithely along, run into the web face-first, and scream GEDDIDOFF GEDDIDOFF GEDDIDOFF!! while the spider crawls down the back of your shirt.

Nature: there's a reason we invented the atom bomb!

>> ^Krupo:
Man, how useless would duck-and-cover actually be? Hmm, reminds me of the Simpsons' skit along those lines. One of my freakiest USA memories is seeing the bomb shleter sign at the bus station in Baltimore...


No, ducking under a desk or behind a wall will not save you from an atomic bomb at ground zero. However, it can protect you from falling debris and shattered glass if you're far enough away to not be vaporized. You do what you can with what you have, y'know.

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Wright has the dates WAY off, and BillO didn't correct him on the year (at least he got the month, August, right). From Wikipedia:

"The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman on August 6 and 9, 1945. After six months of intense fire-bombing of 67 other Japanese cities, the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed on August 9 by the detonation of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb over Nagasaki. These are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare"

I personally don't agree with Wright's POV on this, but there are plenty of others who argue that the nuclear bombings were ethically wrong. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Debate_over_bombings

Finally, I'm a little surprised at how restrained BillO is in this clip.