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Posted on 02/24/2006 12:21:07 PM PST by butternut_squash_bisque
Those of us who enjoy military history usually just switch on the History Channel for our daily fix of guts, gore and armed conflict. But if you’re a serious war buff, and you want to relive one of the most horrifying moments in the deadliest war in human history, an Italian toy maker has just the thing.
Brumm recently unveiled miniature models of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.” Those names may conjure up images of cuddly cartoon characters, but they’re actually the codenames for two atomic bombs that the U.S. military dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of World War II.
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Kewl! Who will be selling them in the U.S.?
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I hope these are not the models colors.
I'd like one for a hood ornament on my Jeep. Remember the Pontiac Chieftain (or something) back in the 50s, which had the hood ornament that lit up at night?
No problem. Just that FR is often the first place to find things and many people only use it for the breaking news. A good rule of thumb is to never post to breaking news unless it's "Jesus Returns" or "Deathstar Reported in Earth Orbit." If it is truely "breaking news" somebody else will move it.
BTW, I know we just had this conversation privately. This response is for Tijeras_Slim and other newbie lurkers.
It's probably a good idea at this point to confess my ongoing weakness for jokes involving Zero Wing schtick.
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As does Mrs. Jest. Which she has been known to wear once or twice during the month of August.
The article mentions Brumm as the manufacturer. Her's a link to some of their products:
http://www.motorsportcollector.com/MODbrumm.html
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Strange. No mention of the tens of thousands of Japanese troops also killed... /sarcasm
They're 1:43 scale. Why in the world did they pick 1:43? They aren't the same scale as anything that I've ever built. I've built planes in 1:32, 1:35, 1:48, 1:72, but never even SEEN anything in 1:43.
Dumb.
A Brumm spokesman said the company was only trying to do its bit for world history, protesting “against the insanity of nuclear-war” according to a report in the U.K.’s Scottish Daily Record.
What people (especially liberals) fail to appreciate about nuclear weapons is that nuclear weapons have more than likely prevented the deaths of uncounted millions by deterring the expansion of Communism and by preventing a war between the Soviet Union and the United States that undoubtedly would have shortly followed WW II.
Nuclear weapons are presently preventing war between Pakistan and India also between Israel and the rest of the Middle East.
Yes Nuclear war would be insane and that is exactly why Nuclear Weapons are so effective in preventing war. Only an insane people would ever chance initiating one.
Nuclear weapons are the only truly the most moral weapons ever produced.
More left-wing codswallop. Actually, these two bombs ended the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.
Spot on, J. In the 50s and early 60s, we were immersed in American History which is almost gone from the schools' cirriculum, these days.
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I would venture to say that no weapon is possessed of any morality, good or bad. It is the use to which the weapon is put, and more precisely, the men who decide that use, that imputes the moral cast.
>>Actually, these two bombs ended the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.
Actually, I think it would be pretty hard to argue that these bombs ends Soviet Communism, which was responsible for the deaths of over 60 million souls.
They did keep it from expanding and taking more, though, as someone has already noted.
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