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Old 08-03-2010, 08:56 AM   #11
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Where was the use new weapon tech to force Japan into surrender then run the Russians back to Stalingrad? Patton woulda chose that one...
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Old 08-03-2010, 09:10 AM   #12
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very interesting...
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Old 08-03-2010, 09:10 AM   #13
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Put those scientists on a ship headed for Japan coastline and I wonder how they would have answered.
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Old 08-03-2010, 09:39 AM   #14
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Option #1 wins today, only because men age 18-35 are the predominant users of the internet.
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Old 08-03-2010, 10:15 AM   #15
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I could have swore that they did that...
No, the first detonation was the Trinity test at White Sands, New Mexico and that was done in secret. The next two detonations were over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Old 08-03-2010, 10:34 AM   #16
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Hiroshima was an adequate public test/demonstration but thanks to examples like Coventry and Dresden we had to prove to the Japanese that it was indeed just one bomb.
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