>> ^BoneyD:
Ohh yeah, the bombs were dropped in August! Well dodged, Bill. Now it's as though the bombs were never dropped, thanks to your clever maneuver.


He was also 4 years off on his date, son. The atom bombs were dropped in 45, not 41.

*beg

The explosion was the largest manmade blast until the detonation of the atomic bomb. *dark

>> ^MycroftHomlz:
Science is all a lie. I am with Palin on this one. Do you know how much money is waisted funding science, 26 BILLION DOLLARS. And what has science done for you?


Cars, planes, the atom bomb, hundreds of ways to fuck the planet back to the stoneage in the hands of your corrupt leaders.

Need I go on?



You ever ask yourself that?
Science is for noobs.


Yeah, that makes up a substantial part of your 10+ trillion dollar national debt... 0.26%... Waddya spend the rest on, beer and hookers?

But yeah, good thinking sparkie. Trundle back to the caves and dream about how nice it was to have fire, I'm sure your absence will not in any way diminish mankind... =)

A bit like the LHC (but with more uncertainty as it was a completely new field)... when they first designed the atomic bomb, there were several theories about what would happen.

Some scientists figured that the atomic chain reaction would not stop. Each atom would hit the next atom breaking it up in to atomic particles flying into the next atom and so on in a chain reaction until the world was destroyed. Even Einstein, who had helped them crack the design needed for fission, wasn't certain.

They had theories, but they didn't know for certain what would happen. But as a military project, not a scientific one, it wasn't driven by logic or reason.

They took the risk and did it anyway.

Balloon bombs? Really? REALLY? Let me know when 6000 balloon bombs equal the force of one Little Boy or Fat Man.

>> ^2pornot2p:
>> ^thinker247:
"When the girls walked outside, they found a vision of hell."
I still can't comprehend why it was necessary to destroy 100,000 civilians.

They would have done it to us first had they been able to.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=11
Read it, it's an amazing piece.

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>> ^thinker247:
"When the girls walked outside, they found a vision of hell."
I still can't comprehend why it was necessary to destroy 100,000 civilians.


They would have done it to us first had they been able to.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=11
Read it, it's an amazing piece.

Thanks, whiteboy!

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*promote *dark

Holy Irony Batman: when that day comes, BillO is going to go off like so many atomic bombs.

>> ^acl123:
^ I think he may be referring to the atomic bombings of Nagaski and Hiroshima.


Either way, it alienates mainstream liberals and moderates if your math doesn't seem to add up

^ I think he may be referring to the atomic bombings of Nagaski and Hiroshima.

@ Drachen_Jager, mharvey42 and djsunkid: thanks for doing my homework (I was actually hoping for the poster to back it up; Pan7her, could you bother us with a link, or two? I mean, I’m a big fan of Sean Penn, but even I am not going to take his word for this). I think the Iraq stat’s are as accurate as we can get at the moment; I just wasn’t that sure about the other numbers. I mean, a lot of civilians died of the flue in WWI, but is that war-related? And who do or don’t count as civilian victims in WWII (why not include the holocaust victims, but then, if we do, should we include Stalin’s civilian victims as well)? And what about the other wars not mentioned? It’s all a matter of who and how you count, it seems.

Which, I think, is interesting, because it seems that ever since WWI there has been a tendency to fight a war with as little body bags coming home as possible (which is actually a serious theory about why the atomic bomb was created).

And, somehow, the numbers are important. I mean, if the US want revenge for the 3,500 people killed at 9/11 -- sorry, want to stop the terrorist threat-- it would be interesting to know what the current exchange rate between New York/Washington office employees and anonymous people at the other end of the world, --sorry, the acceptable “collateral damage” risk -- is.

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William Stromberg and Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
That clip is from Visual Concept Entertainment's documentary Trinity and Beyond, aka The Atomic Bomb Movie. They have also couple other documentaries around same subject.
http://www.vce.com/about.html

Here's some more clips from those documentaries.
Cannikin with resulting "6.8 Richter shaking":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OCb34tmX4UI
Redwing Cherokee:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvzpqecuB-M
Operation Dominic shots:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=joupmq4e2eM
Ivy Mike, first real two stage thermonuclear bomb:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xEFXfMQ-vzQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=asAkcbI2nt4
Castle Bravo, "little miscalculation". Non-inert Lithium-7 rised yield to 2.5 times greater than estimated making it largest nuclear device ever detonated by US:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fd1IFjBNNVo
Sedan excavation test:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VplPn52Lbm4
Nuclear artillery shell, Upshot-Knothole Grable:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oBIYLG8XMOc