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To: decimon

“So then what is your answer? What planes did we have to deliver nukes to Soviet Russian cities?”

Duh - ever here of the Doolittle Raid - the thousand miles from Berlin to Moscow was easy for the 24, 25 and even the 17.

Dont forget that the Hiroshima bomb only had a couple hundred pounds of explosives.


91 posted on 03/16/2008 4:44:15 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot
Duh - ever here of the Doolittle Raid - the thousand miles from Berlin to Moscow was easy for the 24, 25 and even the 17.

Dont forget that the Hiroshima bomb only had a couple hundred pounds of explosives.

Yes, I have heard of the Doolittle raid. That other than the B-29 was capable of delivering an atomic bomb is nothing I've heard before. Makes me wonder why we bothered to develop the B-29 and fight for a place in the Pacific to accommodate it bombing Japanese cities.

93 posted on 03/16/2008 4:56:42 PM PDT by decimon
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To: spanalot
Duh - ever here of the Doolittle Raid - the thousand miles from Berlin to Moscow was easy for the 24, 25 and even the 17.

Duh, what planet are you from? The Doolittle Raid was a one-way trip, launched from a aircraft carrier and the pilots could only hope to make it to China afterwards. Several of the planes crashed in Japan and the crews were killed by the Japanese. Several of the plane crews, though, did make it to China and the Chinese did their best to help them. The Japanese were infuriated by the whole thing, and it's estimated they murdered 250,000 Chinese trying to find the American pilots.

Dont forget that the Hiroshima bomb only had a couple hundred pounds of explosives.

Nonsense, the U235 core and the Plutonium core weighed less than 5 pounds each. It was all the surrounding mechanisms that caused the bombs to be so heavy.

Do you ever bother to research anything?

98 posted on 03/16/2008 6:22:15 PM PDT by xJones
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