Thousands mark world's first atomic blast

AP ^ | 7/16/5 | FELICIA FONSECA

[sonofatpatcher2]

Amen...

My late Father always said the A-Bomb saved his life...

[tet68]

"Behold I am become Vishnu, Destroyer of Worlds!"

Oppenheimer Bump.

[michaelt]

So that's why the History and Military Channels are showing atomic bomb related shows all evening.

[Mark was here]

I have fond memories of visits to the park at White Sands. It's like mountains of snow in the desert. Especially to a kid who grew up in the desert and never really had much snow to play in. (Then we moved to Michigan.)

[dr_who_2]

Yahoo! Celebrate!

[WorkingClassFilth]

"Longtime Los Alamos lab critic Greg Mello said on the eve of the 60th anniversary that the United States still has not come to grips with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "These acts we still consider to be somehow, if not noble, then somewhat justified. They were manifestly illegal at the time and terribly immoral. By any standard, they were crimes," he said."

Oh, this creep has come to terms with it alright. He just uses that shred of excuse to hide his treason, moral bankruptcy and stupidity. If 500,000 died in the two atom bomb drops, is that as bad or worse than the estimated 2,000,000 dead an invasion would have taken? Go pedal your lies somewhere else, Mr. Mello.

[Westlander]

We need more 'tests' in the middle east.

[ovrtaxt]

YAY! Bust out the saki!!

[ReadyNow]

"Visitors stooped to pick up pieces of trininite, a radioactive, turquoise crystal-like material that was created by the blast."

Think how much trininite the desert around Mecca would produce.

[ncountylee]

So did mine and my uncles too.

[Pro-Bush]

Awesome show on Military channel as we speak - West coast, DISH network.

[timpad]

Greg Mello said on the eve of the 60th anniversary that the United States still has not come to grips with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I wish losers would learn to speak for themselves and only for themselves. I'm an American, and I have 'come to grips' with it long ago. But not with the self-flagellation Mr. Mello would like.

[RWR8189]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"These acts ... were manifestly illegal at the time and terribly immoral. By any standard, they were crimes," Greg Mello said.

Why is that the MSM always feels obligated to "balance" these stories with the brayings of some self-righteous ass who mistakes the rumblings of bowels for the voice of God?

When Can We Have That Bomb?

[DoughtyOne]

"If only Hitler had developed it first..." < /Sarcasm >

If the U.S. were to crumble tomorrow, you'd hear the same raving lunatics that damn us today, whining because there wasn't a U.S. to protect their sorry a__es.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

"Think how much trininite the desert around Mecca would produce."

hopefully it would stretch from Morocco to Kashmir, but neutron would be preferable and wouldn't make trinitite.....neutron is more like.....insecticide :)

[Spunky]

My home town was where all this started. (See My Profile page)

B Reactor at Hanford, Washington.
Manhattan Project

Within a year, the sparsely populated area turned into a community of 50,000. Workers employed at the Hanford Engineering Works, part of the Manhattan Project came alone and lived in dorms, or brought their families and moved into trailers or alphabet houses...

Manhattan Project

[Mr_Moonlight]

My late Father always said the A-Bomb saved his life...

While my Father is still around, he pretty much says the exact same thing almost every time the family gets together for a cookout or such .... that the A-bomb saved his life.
He was with the Pacific Fleet getting ready to invade Japan, just waiting for the orders to do so ... and they were under no illusions as to what it would entail. He tells stories of how his shipmates were readying their last will and testiments, knowing full well that the casualty rate of an invasion would be extremely high.
However, still to this day, my Dad maintains a pride that even with an invasion of Japan, America would have eventually won the war anyway .... ya gotta admire the guts and courage of those guys in the Greatest Generation !

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

"These acts we still consider to be somehow, if not noble, then somewhat justified. They were manifestly illegal at the time and terribly immoral. By any standard, they were crimes," he said. Oh, so I guess Pearl Harbor and the Bataan Death March were perfectly "legal" and "moral" then, using this creep's logic. I have news for him, my vet uncle and the rest of my family came to grips with Hiroshima and Nagasaki a long time ago, in a most positive way, since he had been slated for the Kyushu assault force for the planned Operation DOWNFALL in November 1945. U.S. Army casualty projections for the invasion of the Japanese home islands ran anywhere from 250,000 to over 600,000 on Kyushu alone. Yeah, we're damned happy that the atomic bombings brought the Pacific war to a qucik close.