CNN Just Revealed It Was a B-52 That Dropped A bomb on Nagasaki in 1945!

CNN at aprox. 9:20 PM, CDST

[Tacis]

By accident, I stopped on CNN just as they were doing a story on the anniversary of the successful peace action at Nagasaki in 1945. They showed some older Japanese people as the female announcer, in a voice deep and wet with concern, told about today's moment of silence at 11:02 in commeration of the time in 1945 when "a B-52 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki."

[GOPJ]

Your dad must be one smart cookie. Thanks for sharing.

My dad helped design the ball turret on the B-29, or at least that's what he thinks. I'll have to tell him that despite his Nuclear Clearance that should have given him the real scoop (nuclear clearance was a big deal in those days), he was just mislead by the "big cover-up," it was really the B-52 that he was working on.

[GOPJ]

A moment of silence for you and yours...

And while you're at it, please think of my uncle Lee, who died at 6:30am on July 27, 2003. He was a US Marine POW taken on Wake Island, and held for 44 months. He spoke to me of receiving rifle butt beatings every day of his imprisonment, often around his ankles or his abdomen -- just a strike here, or a strike there.

He lived to meet my aunt Bea, and together they had six wonderful children -- because he came home before he starved to death. He was liberated as soon as he was, because Japan surrendered after these atomic bombs forced them to end the insanity their heartless government had unleashed on the Pacific Rim on December 7th, 1941.

[archy]

"a B-52 dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki."

Did they mention the pilot was an Israeli Air Force officer?

Nah. the pilot was Fred Schneider, with Kate Pierson serving as the bombardieer and Cindy Wilson navigating.

[Normal4me]

You all have me stumped now...I seem to remember it as: "What did you shoot him with, a .38?" and the actor replying: "38...39, whatever it took".

[Spunky]

"I didn't know they could restore pilots. Good job! You too can qualify as a copywriter at CNN."

Tehehehehehehehehe!

The article didn't have the pilots name in it and I wanted everyone to know his name. So I did do a cut and paste not reading it over carefully to see if it worked.

:-( Blush! Blush!

[theDentist]

Everyone knows it was a Falcon...

The Millennium Facon, that is.

[GigaDittos]

It's easy for CNN to mix up 1954 and 1945. They can blame the secretary for the typo.

[GigaDittos]

Well you obvious haven't seen the lost scene of a B-52 landing on the Nimitz deck, but CNN knows about it.

[GigaDittos]

I HEARD THAT!!

[NCC-1701]

"...Everybody knows it was really an F-117..."

A similar major error occurred during the first nights of air strike in Baghdad. A reporter for either CNN or PMSNBC made the remark that the attacks were carried out with B-17's. Not bad for an old bomber out of production for decades. It happened, I'm not making this up.

[jae471]

18 times the speed of light was about warp 2.6.

Warp is a logarithmic scale.

[Hatteras]

"So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb..."

[dsc]

OOOOOooooo, good one.

As a former Navy man, that one always has a special place in my nightmares.

[MindBender26]

Think it was the thin, pie and slice weapon.

[samuel_adams_us]

Yep, a B-52! And I bet Chuck Yeager was flying it, it took off from West Virginia also, flew the whole way without refueling. This is proof of what hard drugs will do to a persons mind!

[GingisK]

so what the heck is it supposed to do to you???

When DU hits a target, some of it is expelled as a gas, which condenses into a dust. The dust floats about in the air. People breathe it. DU, like most metals, is poisonous. DU has its own poisoning symptoms, as do each of the metals.

DU poisoning has been proven, and it is bad.

[MindBender26]

Think it was the thin, pie and slice weapon

WRONG, I WAS WRONG. Pie and slice went to Hiroshima. Implosion weapon, thought to be more efficient and of advanced, but less reliable design theory was dropped on Nagasaki.

Forgot if Trinity was gun barrel/pie and slice or implosion.

[MindBender26]

Think it was the thin, pie and slice weapon

WRONG, I WAS WRONG. Pie and slice went to Hiroshima. Implosion weapon, thought to be more efficient and of advanced, but less reliable design theory was dropped on Nagasaki.

Forgot if Trinity was gun barrel/pie and slice or implosion.

[ken5050]

Actually, accouring to CNN..it realy was a B-17..it was able to achieve the extraordinary range for the A-Bomb mission, because the plane had a very big

TAIL WIND!!!