It was just the ones under
It was just the ones under Eisenhower's and some allege french control. Patton let the POWs go home when Germany surrendered. Some people allege part of Eisenhower's hatred of Germans was due to his...
View ArticleHow many Jewish lives will be
How many Jewish lives will be saved if Iran nukes Israel instead of using conventional bombs? One would think, using your inescapable logic, that Israel would give Iran nukes instead of threatening war.
View ArticleSorry, not buying it. Our
Sorry, not buying it. Our execution of the war in Germany could have been modified slightly to enable us to use an atom bomb there first. Why didn't we?Besides, Japanese behavior still didn't earn them...
View ArticleTrue. Just wish Hollywood
True. Just wish Hollywood would make some movies about Mao's killings and the Stalin's reign of terror.
View ArticleDo you understand anything
Do you understand anything about ore concentrations?You need mountains of the stuff; please, review the difference between the productivity at oak ridge versus hanford. You can read up on the...
View ArticleAhhhh So you would have
AhhhhSo you would have chosen to let 2,000,000 die to salve your conscience.Even though more than 300,000 civilians would have died during the decimation required on a house by house level of ground...
View Article? The Allied and Axis
?The Allied and Axis Powers were World War II - a war of necessity brought on by the imminently avoidable World War I and its ludicrous reparations used to bankrupt Germany.barliman
View ArticleAnd the Soviet put a large
And the Soviet put a large parachute on theirs so that the antique bomber has a chance to get out of the airspace. That one broke windows 2000+ miles away.
View Articlejohn39, I agree with you
john39, I agree with you completely apart from your usage of "enough already".
View ArticleGene said it better than
Gene said it better than me.You just continue with this vision of yours...In 1991, during the first Gulf War, I had a prophetic vision of a future Mideast war and global nuclear Apocalypse in...
View ArticleWell the reporter went down
Well the reporter went down into the congressional archives. You can hear him talking to the librarian as he orders up the actual records from the congressional committee which he then reads out. It's...
View ArticleMacArthur was showboat. If
MacArthur was showboat. If there's a need for killing give me Patton any day.
View ArticleActually he should check out
Actually he should check out the complete Hitchiker's Guide series. Much more accurate and helpful than the bible.
View ArticleExactly. Trav is talking
Exactly. Trav is talking complete nonsense.Weapon-grade U-235 HEU is just 1/144th of all natural uranium.Between 48kg and 60 kg was used in the Hiroshima bomb, so let's call it 55kg, and that's;55kg *...
View ArticleThe reason nuclear weapons
The reason nuclear weapons use Pu239 is because it is superior for that purpose due to the far easier acquisition thereof. That's an extremely narrow and very doubtful view of 'easier'. The burning...
View Article... you just need a
... you just need a reactor. I think you'll find Iraq and Syria would have preferred a hidden underground HEU production plant, in retrospect.And since when is mining and production of yellow-cake or...
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