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To: justshutupandtakeit; Tailgunner Joe

You and Romanov keep making a liar out of Patton. He asked for two bombs to get rid of the Russian threat and guess what - we had them.

"Chuck Hansen's great book U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History doesn't explicitly go into this question, but it does note that at the end of 1945 the U.S. owned a total of two atomic bombs, both Fat Man plutonium bombs. (This design became the standard U.S. nuclear weapon until into the 1950s.) He also notes that the weapons were short-lived, so it is possible that a) there were more than two bombs in the inventory when the war ended and even that b) the bombs on hand on December 31 had been assembled after August 15. "


359 posted on 05/08/2006 3:33:38 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot

I do not believe for ONE instance that Patton "asked for two bombs". He loathed such weapons and would never have used one except in the most desparate conditions. An invasion of the USSR would certainly have produced desparate conditions quite soon there is no doubt of that.

In any case the insane use of two bombs would not have particularly bothered the Soviet Bear only enraged him and all our allies. Of course, who would have been our ally after a treacherous attack on our major ally?

Apparently a nation's word means nothing to you.


403 posted on 05/08/2006 9:25:37 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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