"Scientists working at Trinity site as part of The Manhattan Project created the nuclear device used in the test on July 16, 1945. That successful detonation led to the construction of the two atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Japan in August 1945, essentially stunning Japan into surrender and ending World War II."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm
Monday 01 November 2004, 16:01 Makka Time, 13:01 GMT
"People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results. . . "
"People of America this talk of mine is for you..."
Well now, everyone has a opinion.
Thanks callmejoe for that post.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3269211
July 16, 2005, 8:24PM
OUR HIROSHIMA
Dropping the 'Islamic bomb'
An atomic attack on Fortress America by pious men with beards isn't a matter of if but when.
By PERVEZ HOODBHOY (snipped)
ONE wonders what Osama bin Laden and his ilk learned from Hiroshima. . .
The New York Times reported that before the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States had intercepted an al-Qaida message that bin Laden was planning a "Hiroshima" against America. In a later taped message, released before the U.S. attack on Afghanistan, bin Laden said, "When people at the ends of the Earth, Japan, were killed by their hundreds of thousands, young and old, it was not considered a war crime; it is something that has justification."