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CNN: Hiroshima 'Barely Set Back' By Atomic Bomb
The Bee ^ | June 25, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 06/25/2025 12:26:51 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

U.S. — CNN has obtained a classified briefing revealing that the city of Hiroshima was "barely affected" after being hit by an atomic bomb.

According to anonymous sources, the briefing states that Hiroshima being hit by a nuke only set back the city "a couple of months" and that all of its industries would be operating as normal shortly.

"Hiroshima escaped with minimal damage," reported CNN's Anderson Cooper. "A few entrances to the city were shut down, but otherwise the city remains completely intact. We have highly classified intelligence which confirms that Hiroshima was not, I repeat, was not incinerated as was expected. The U.S. mission has failed."

Several members of the military and intelligence community have disputed CNN's reporting. "We literally dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima. There was a mushroom cloud and everything," explained a military intelligence officer on condition of anonymity. "I know there's no on-ground confirmation, which is because you can't go in there since it's radioactive and you'll die. Which is, again, because we dropped an atomic bomb on it."

At publishing time, CNN had stood by its reporting and stated it would do so until an American went to ground zero to take pictures.

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TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: babylonbee; certainlynotnews; clintonnonnews; cnn

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CNN is keeping Truman honest.
1 posted on 06/25/2025 12:26:51 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

Right. Hiroshima is a thriving city today. I guess the bombing was “pointless.”


2 posted on 06/25/2025 12:28:38 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Navy Patriot

I LOL’d.

As an FYI, the same squadron (509th) hitting the nuke labs dropped the sun on Japan in 1945, making them just as bad assistant as the Nightstalkers in my opinion.


3 posted on 06/25/2025 12:28:48 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: Navy Patriot

It’s the Bee; but very easy to mistake for something CNN would pronounce.


4 posted on 06/25/2025 12:29:03 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: InsidiousMongo

Assistant = ass

My phone hates expletives.


5 posted on 06/25/2025 12:29:30 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: Navy Patriot
Reminds me of this meme…very factual actually. IMG-1153
6 posted on 06/25/2025 12:29:37 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Navy Patriot

Then why did Japan surrender? Anyway, the Hiroshima bomb was especially dirty because most of most of the fissile material did reach critical mass, and was instead scattered around the city after being irradiated by the blast.


7 posted on 06/25/2025 12:32:19 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Navy Patriot

this is actually not bee-level funny.

we don’t know how extensive was damage underground. everyone says something based on its relevance to them and their own goals.

we may never know.


8 posted on 06/25/2025 12:32:34 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Navy Patriot

LOL. Meh. ‘Tis a flesh wound.


9 posted on 06/25/2025 12:36:22 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Navy Patriot
Someone tell DNI Gabbard that.
10 posted on 06/25/2025 12:37:18 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: Navy Patriot

I would have supported Israel using a tactical nuke to destroy that Iranian mountain.


11 posted on 06/25/2025 12:37:26 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: Texas Eagle

Now that was LOL funny.


12 posted on 06/25/2025 12:53:39 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: McGruff
There is an area on the border between India and China where China keeps "accidentally" sending their army across and killing Indian solders.

The Indians drive them off with iron bars, rocks and other such improvised melee weapons because the understanding is that as long as no one is shooting it is not a "war". If ever someone starts shooting it becomes a war, not just an "incident" and the rules change drastically.

It is the same with Nukes. As long as no one is using them all the other people keep theirs tucked away as well.

What will happen if someone uses a nuke? No one knows. Maybe nothing. Or maybe once the genie is out everyone will start resorting to them. No one wants to find out.

13 posted on 06/25/2025 12:57:45 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: All

Nagasaki was hit with a Plutonium bomb.

About 99% of all nuclear weapons today are Plutonium. Only N. Korea and **maybe** Pakistan have their nukes from U-235.

Plutonium does not require months or years of centrifuge activity. It is likely N. Korea will transition their weapons to Plutonium soon, since they have a power reactor. As does Iran. Spent fuel rods are the plutonium source.

(It largely doesn’t matter if the centrifuges were destroyed)


14 posted on 06/25/2025 1:01:12 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Navy Patriot

Most postwar Japanese cities were rebuilt much faster than most German cities. Part of it was most small buildings being wooden, but part of it was the usual Japanese penchant for rebuilding, given centuries of natural disasters.


15 posted on 06/25/2025 1:06:22 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Navy Patriot

They got me! I didn’t notice it was the Bee.


16 posted on 06/25/2025 1:09:44 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Navy Patriot

Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, was one of the few times where is was okay for a politician (in this case, the mayor of Hiroshima) to use the “F” word. He said:

“What the F*** was that?”


17 posted on 06/25/2025 1:23:40 PM PDT by econjack
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To: Navy Patriot
Hmmm...Looks like they were right...
18 posted on 06/25/2025 1:35:08 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Navy Patriot

If they guy is talking about the one Mosler bank safe that survived the blast he might be sort of right?


19 posted on 06/25/2025 1:50:50 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: Owen

For some reason, I understood Israel’s nukes were U235 implosion devices. (I always thought only plutonium worked like this, but U235 apparently does, too.)

The advantage of U235 warheads is they don’t need reprocessing nearly as often as plutonium.


20 posted on 06/25/2025 1:52:12 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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