[butternut_squash_bisque]

Yes, pMSNBC sucks, but I want one of each!

[Tijeras_Slim]

The National Atomic Museum in NM used to sell Fat Man and Little Boy earings. They pulled them when a Japanese tour bus showed up....


Mrs. Slim has a pair.

[presidio9]

Welcome to FR. This story does not belong in "Breaking News"

[King Moonracer]

Does it come in a large sized turbin?

[Alter Kaker]

Breaking news?

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Ooooops, got the names wrong:

FATBOY; LITTLEMAN

should be

'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'

Admin Moderator: can you pls fix them in keywords. Sorry 'bout that.

[Redbob]

I want 'em to, to go along with the M1911 .45 and M1 Garand in my collection of WWII tools.

Few other weapons in history can be said to have taught a foe a useful lesson.

[M203M4]

[RichInOC]

CHE COSA ACCADONO?
QUALCUNO LI HA INSTALLATI LA BOMBA.

[Clioman]

Kewl! Who will be selling them in the U.S.?

[JamesP81]

Alas, nearly 90 percent of Americans can't name the four presidential faces carved into the monument.

This is why our government has strayed so far from what the Founders intended. They don't teach this stuff in school anymore. God help us, but we don't even know who we are anymore.

[pabianice]

Cool!

[pabianice]

The bombs were detonated above the Japanese cities in August 1945, killing tens of thousands of Japanese civilians, and thousands more would later die as a result of nuclear fallout and from cancer.

Strange. No mention of the tens of thousands of Japanese troops also killed... /sarcasm

[wyattearp]

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.

[Pontiac]

Not surprisingly, Brumm has been roundly condemned for making the atomic toys. Critics say they are in poor taste,

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.

[Cincinatus]

“With the faithful scale reproductions of ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy,’ we plan to provide a small historical contribution so as not to forget what generated the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.”

More left-wing codswallop. Actually, these two bombs ended the worst catastrophe of the twentieth century.

[VOA]

File under "Blowed Up Real Good!"

[Calpernia]

>>>The bombs were detonated above the Japanese cities in August 1945, killing tens of thousands of Japanese civilians, and thousands more would later die as a result of nuclear fallout and from cancer. Just in case the gross insensitivity of their new products went unnoticed, Brumm chose to unveil its mini bombs earlier this month at of all places the Nuremberg toy fair in Germany.

Gross insensitivity?

THIS is gross insensitivity!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1521072/posts
Unit 731 - Research and Bump List. Gets Disturbing, Read at Your Own Risk

[Trajan88]

cool... I want iterations for the homestead... a deceased uncle was a Pearl Harbor survivor.

I worked at a Japanese-owned firm a few years ago... the most I would push the envelope would be to wear a red-white-blue tie on Dec. 7. There's no way I would have brought one of those toys to work.

While on the subject, I think it is about time to revive the U.S. stamp that never was (the mushroom cloud U.S. stamp that depicted the near-end of WWII). A few years ago I picked up one of these "stamps" at the Atomic Museum (New Mexico) - it was never marked "U.S.A." nor with a price denomination - the politically correct folk back in the 90s put pressure on the USPS to can the offering.

[COEXERJ145]

I got a beautiful 14 x 20 framed print of this hanging in my room. It was a Christmas present a few years ago. It is also signed by the original photographer.