Here's how a Peacekeeper test looked downrange (Kwajalein) with dummy warheads:
 Post-boost vehicle of an MX intercontinental ballistic missile being loaded 300kt each |
Posted on 08/09/2014 1:11:12 AM PDT by right-wing agnostic
Saturday marks the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima – devastating acts that helped bring World War Two to a close. (Three days after Hiroshima, Nagasaki was similarly battered).
The attacks – the only time nuclear weapons have ever been used in world history to date – killed tens of thousands of people and shocked the planet with the scale of their destruction.
There has been much controversy over the decision to bomb Japan and some speculation that it might have been racially motivated (given that the U.S. military did not drop such weapons on European civilian targets).
Anti-Japanese discrimination was widespread in the United States long before the war, as exemplified by immigration restrictions the government imposed upon the Japanese (as well as other Asians).
However, the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by the Imperial Japanese military threw that animosity into overdrive that lasted well after the second world war.
About 120,000 Japanese-Americans were rounded up into internment camps during the war, while propaganda was mass- produced that depicted the Japanese as subhuman and extremely cruel and depraved.
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Here's how a Peacekeeper test looked downrange (Kwajalein) with dummy warheads:
Post-boost vehicle of an MX intercontinental ballistic missile being loaded 300kt each |
Some of the horsecrap people come up with in retrospect is simply amazing.
Ending that war then likely saved millions of Japanese lives, not to mention considerable numbers of allied lives as well.
Sadly true. Though our troops have prevailed on the battlefield, we have failed to obtain unconditional surrender from all but a couple of small conflicts (Grenada, Panama/Noriega). We continue to play a winning hand badly at the political level.
My late dad could have told anyone, without resorting to trumped-up or manufactured propanganda after his 4-year stint in Japanese POW camps, that the Japanese military was "extremely cruel and depraved." The only Japanese plan for POWs (in only mild preference to "take no prisoners," i.e., kill them on the spot) was to get whatever work output they could from them in their stored-up body mass, subsidized only slightly by meager rice rations. When the POW's body mass was depleted and their work on earth was ended, they were simply expected to die, according to the calculations done long before.
Compare that to how Gitmo detainees have been treated.
HF
“Was the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor racist? Was the war in the Pacific racist?”
Absolutely. It was based upon the premise that Asians should rightfully be slaves of the yellow race (Japanese) rather than the white race; hence the Japanese strategy known as the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”.
My father would never buy a Japanese car, period.
Dropping those bombs on Japan had NOTHING to do with race, it had everything to do with ending a long and bloody war brought on by Japan no matter what race their people were.
Time to get off the race baiting bus.
Last night I watched the first two episodes of the new TV series Manhattan from the WGN network (watch free on Hulu).
One of the things some of the characters emphasized is how many Americans were dying every day in the war. The scientists would update the casualty numbers on the chalk board daily, and were fighting over how to shave just a few weeks off of the schedule to make the bomb ready.
This ignorant author apparently is unaware of the firebombing of Dresden.
The Japanese also had plans to murder all POWs in the event of invasion or defeat. It was only the rapid surrender after Nagasaki that forestalled this.
Yes - lets finally admit it. Anything and everything that whites have ever done is racist.
Never forget the internment camps for Japanese - Americans !
The author seem to be ignorant of the fact Japan had its own Oppenheimer in Yoshio Nishina. He also ignores the racism practiced by the Japanese against other Asians, the Chinese and Koreans in particular.
Does anyone recall that the Japs sent air baloons carrying clay urns filled with fleas carrying plague over the USA? One was discovered by a family in Colorado, who opened it and they all died. The Japs had resorted to bio-weapons! Poor Japs is all the Libtards will talk about all these years.
Never forget how Japanese = Americans were treated . How come German-Americans weren’t rounded up and interned ?
Cuz they were not WHITE !
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