[Reaganwuzthebest]

Roosevelt from what I understand during the Battle of the Bulge pressured scientists to speed up the bomb's development. I don't doubt after what happened at Dresden he would have hesitated to use it in Europe.

[Jemian]

The Germans were occupying France?

Just a thought.

[John Jorsett]

It's never too late ...

[Chi-townChief]

ST: One last thing, when you hear people say, "Let's nuke 'em," "Let's nuke these people," what do you think?

PT: Oh, I wouldn't hesitate if I had the choice. I'd wipe 'em out. You're gonna kill innocent people at the same time, but we've never fought a damn war anywhere in the world where they didn't kill innocent people. If the newspapers would just cut out the shit: "You've killed so many civilians." That's their tough luck for being there.

Studs certainly didn't get the answer he wanted there and backed off real fast! Terkel is one of the bigger phonies that you'll come across.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET

...You know, I really got's to thank you for finding and sharing this "Little" Number with us. Who would-a thunk 50 years ago that in a new Century we'd get to know about our possessing a 3rd Hell on Earth and of our will to use it for Victory in War...?

...Sort-a reminds us of the attitude we all should embrace in a new -Time of War- with an Enemy that is now...

...just around the corner and up your street...?

Signed:..Witness ALOHA RONNIE / Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 / Landing Zone Falcon / www.LzXray.com

NEVER FORGET

[Drango]

Please, please think about doing this now.

Q. why do they ban fireworks at the tour De France?
A. Cause everytime they went off, the French riders would surrender.

[gitmogrunt]

Don't they call articles like this "revisionist history"?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

This is pure bullshat damn conspiracy theory crap so whats next the enola gay is really a time machine for the NWO /sheesh/

[alloysteel]

Nazi Germany was ALWAYS the primary target for first use of the atomic bomb. The fact that they crumbled before we had a tested version of the weapon available was a matter of circumstances, not of strategy. But the Japanese made an excellent alternative target of opportunity.

And say, wasn't that a MOST satisfying reprisal for the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Now if we could deliver something as equally rewarding for the events of September 11, 2001....

[IronJack]

Thus, we don't know which city was to be targeted (presumably it was a German one) or why the plan wasn't carried out.

Uh, maybe it was because the Germans surrendered before the bomb was perfected. I suppose we could have gone ahead and dropped it anyway, but think of the bad press.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Sam Cree]

I've heard it said that dropping the bomb on Japan was racist. This shoots holes in that idea.

[Paleo Conservative]

The tactics used to deliver a bomb in Germany would have had to be different than Japan. The Luftwaffe still had some fighters operational till the last month of the war in Europe. I would think that stopping one large B-29 trying to deliver one bomb to a target would be easier to shoot down than 1000 B-17s on a conventional mission.

[TheDon]

Looks like you reeled in a few suckers on FR.

[Petronski]

I sent word back and the crew loaded it on an airplane and we headed back to bring it right on out to Trinian and when they got it to California debarkation point, the war was over.

Terkel's kidding, right? WTF is 'Trinian?' There's Tinian, from which bombers would be launched in anger, and the 'Trinity' site, where the first device was detonated.

There is NO 'Trinian.' LOL

[Jordi]

I suppose it wouldn't have happened mainly because the atomic bomb's fathers were Europeans refugees.

[PolishProud]

And this shoulda-woulda-if info is relative how?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The World's First Nuclear Device Was Exploded on July 16, 1945.

May 8, 1945 Dispatch from Gen. Eisenhower, SHAFE HQ, "The mission of this command has been successfully fulfilled."

If we'd had it, we would have used it against the Germans. And after the Battle of Europe, Americans had absolutely no stomache for a protracted "Battle of Japan".

[OXENinFLA]

Later in the interview, Tibbets reveals another important piece of hidden history--that the US was just about to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan when it surrendered:

I thought from watching the history channel that we only had 3 and 1 was detonated before "fat man" as a test.

Is that wrong?