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Posted on 09/25/2001 12:24:37 PM PDT by Frankiedi
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To: Fzob
I don't think so, either. But I don't think a piddly little test (relatively speaking, of course) tells anybody anything they don't already know about us.
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posted on
09/25/2001 12:43:54 PM PDT
by
Coop
To: Frankiedi
But he said it is evident that the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show that nuclear weapons kill huge numbers of people at random.No, nuclear weapons usually kill people in the vicinity of the explosion. If it was random, people in Capetown, Paris, and Peoria might have died too.
I'm sorry, I just couldn't let that line go by uncommented.
Seriously, this has nothing to do with the recent incident.
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posted on
09/25/2001 12:45:50 PM PDT
by
michaelt
To: Frankiedi
But he said it is evident that the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show that nuclear weapons kill huge numbers of people at random. Sorry pal, but the deaths weren't random. We decided to blow your asses back in to the stone-age, and did so just as was planned.
To: FYI
Hospital sources said up to 250 beds have been added to the 800-bed Civil Hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. The mountainous province is a rocky desert between the Arabian Sea and Afghanistan.
``We have been asked by the provincial government to be prepared for any eventuality. I can't say what eventuality they are expecting but we have been told not to make our preparations public,'' said a senior doctor who asked not to be identified.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010922/wl/attack_pakistan_hospital_dc_1.html
To: Frankiedi
A leader of an organization of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima has denounced U.S. plans to conduct a sub-critical nuclear test as intolerable. You have two choices.
1. In the words of Emperor Hirohito, "Tolerate the intolerable".
2. Commit Sepeku immediately.
Fankly, we don't care which.
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:00:47 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: Hugin
italics off?
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:03:19 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: Frankiedi
Hmmmm. Testing triggers and tritium I suppose.
Not a good sign if you live in Afghanistan.
5.56mm
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:04:27 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Frankiedi
experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The third and seventh largest cities in Japan today! (so much for "long term" effects)
To: Jim Noble
and if there are any releases of a biological or chemical nature released ANYWHERE, they are post toasties!!
That boomer is probably out there, and probably not by itself!! No, the terrorists may not fear for thier lives, but what use is the Jihad if there is nothing left of the middle east to fight for!! Yes, the terrorists had better think long and hard before releasing any NBC weapons, because all those that they fight for and against in the middle East will be nothing but radioactive green glass if they do.
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:09:52 PM PDT
by
Aric2000
To: Jim Noble
Make sure y'all put on LOTS of sunscreen, too...
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:13:20 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
To: Jim Noble
Actually, it wasn't Napoleon, it was Voltaire, commenting on the execution of a French admiral for losing a fight with the Royal Navy.
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:14:30 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
To: Jim Noble
The only possible explanation for this test is that we want to make sure the stuff still works.I agree. The deterrence stuff, I don't buy.
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:15:30 PM PDT
by
Coop
To: Frankiedi
"But he said it is evident that the experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki clearly show that nuclear weapons kill huge numbers of people at random."
Not at random. That was the plan. And boy did it stop a bunch of fanatical suicide pilots....
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:18:29 PM PDT
by
Kozak
To: Kozak DCBryan1
Of course, we'll never know how many suicide pilots it stopped. For all we know, zero. The Unforgettable Fire was the worst US atrocity of all time, a real stain on our nation's glory. It killed far more than the WTC attacks, and nearly all of them civilians.
I'll never understand the argument that "it saved US soldiers' lives." So a soldier, a sailor, is happy to see women and children die in his place? Sickening.
I have nothing but respect for the sailors, soldiers and marines who fought in the Pacific Theater and now use that argument, but they should think about it a little while. Sailors, soldiers and Marines were not the ones who made the cowardly decision to commit a terrorist act against a civilian population. It was an evil president, who feigned ignorance at Pearl Harbor, then willingly betrayed Europe to the communists, who planned the atrocity, and his successor carried it out.
To: The Old Hoosier
It sure stopped all the kamikaze pilots in the Pacific. The Japanese had THOUSANDS of planes in reserve and were commited to fighting to the bitter end. Japanese civilian casualties could have ranged into the millions. Sorry. I'm not sorry for our decisive action in ending the Pacific war.
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:37:29 PM PDT
by
Kozak
To: The Old Hoosier
By the way my parent were on the ground in Dresden where more died then either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Why doesn't that make the top of your list?
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:40:31 PM PDT
by
Kozak
To: eastforker
excellent ... nice comment as well Frank...I am not critical either..
Eastforker just checked out the weather for Ashcanistan, Heavy clouds and 2000 degrees
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posted on
09/25/2001 1:43:12 PM PDT
by
surfer
To: Kozak
OK, then. Maybe not the worst atrocity. But instead of using euphemisms like "decisive action to end the war, answer me this:
So a soldier, a sailor, is happy to see unarmed, noncombatant women and children die in his place? Sickening.
To: The Old Hoosier
Hey, Hoosier! Read "The Rape Of Nanking" the next time your heart starts to bleed. It is a sure cure for apologists for WWII Japanese thugs, rapists, murderers and sadists. And, by the way, try not to switch the blame by blaming America first!
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posted on
09/25/2001 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
albee
To: The Old Hoosier
I don't know. Why don't you throw the question out to guys who were in the Pacific waiting for orders, guys being transfered to the Pacific after winning in Europe, their wives, and children who would never have been born if we had been forced to invade Japan?
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posted on
09/25/2001 3:53:08 PM PDT
by
Kozak
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