Posted on 06/29/2016 8:46:47 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Haha!! I remember seeing those!!!
Nasty critters... right up there with “Atomic Annie” the nuclear cannon... only a lot smaller!!!
2852 meters....
Think about what they were expecting to use it on - HORDES of Soviet ground troops and armor pouring through the Fulda Gap.
Our folks would have been quickly overwhelmed, so this seemed like a good idea to stop the Reds.
Any Cold War warriors out here from that time period, stationed in Germany, waiting for the “balloon to go up”, I would love to hear your stories.
I worked for a Colonel some years ago, Russian language genius. Great guy, super intelligent, he spoke and wrote fluent Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, multiple dialects and all. He spent a lot of time listening in on Soviet radio chatter to see if they were coming across.
Late 50s, early 60s he was there. Must have been a tense time.
I’d love to hear some stories from that era myself, I did learn many years ago that one of the reasons that Truman would not authorize MacArthur to ‘go nuke’ on the North Koreans and Red Chinese during the Korean War, was that Truman knew something MacArthur didn’t, and that was that the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal consisted of 13 and only 13 ‘Fat Man’ Nagasaki-style atomic bombs, and they were needed in the event that Stalin decided to try and push the Western powers to the sea and occupy Western Europe.
And those 13 Nagasaki-style atomic bombs had to be assembled and then carefully transferred to their aircraft, either B-50 (hopped up B-29’s) or the new and trouble-prone B-36 Peacemakers. It was a damn difficult time.
RE Truman:
That may indeed be a correct assumption. Democrat Truman was nothing like today’s communist-riddled democrats.
But... he DID inherit all of FDR’s leftover moles and Soviet spies, so who knows what was in his head.
I’d wager, though, that one Fat Man dropped on the heads of 300 thousand Red Army “People’s Volunteers” crossing the Yalu would have ended the Korean War REAL soon and saved a lot of American and Korean lives.
You may very well be right about the effect of just one more atomic bomb (in Korea), after all we had plans for a third atomic bomb run on Japan had they not surrendered, the honored B-29 was known as the ‘Great Artiste’, and it was bound for Tokyo and the seat of government.
Ditto!
Really...choosing the Kenyan was a well made choice??? And all the millennial that vote for Burnie...
Ok then...
THAT'S what you got from my comment?
Geez.
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