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December 11th, 2003, 11:29 PM
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Re: Military Buffs I need your help.
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Originally posted by Cyrien:
What is this I keep hearing about the US only having the two atomic bombs? Even while the US was bombing it was producing more atomic cores for a sustained atomic bombing effort if Japan failed to surrender. The next one was scheduled to be shipped from Los Alamos and arrive for use against Japan on August 17 or 18
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I had always told that the US had no more and wasn't likely to have any more for months at best. Don't have anything to support it really, just thought it was common knowledge and accepted it as fact.
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December 11th, 2003, 11:41 PM
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Re: Military Buffs I need your help.
Narf,
Try:
Behind Japan's surrender; the secret struggle that ended an empire
by Lester Brooks
Gecko
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December 12th, 2003, 01:20 AM
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Re: Military Buffs I need your help.
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Originally posted by rextorres:
Atrocities - dropping the a-bomb wasn't meant to save civilian lives - I guess it's hard for flag wavers to admit that the U.S. was already killing hundred of thousands of civilian lives - not admitting THIS is revisionist.
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December 12th, 2003, 03:22 AM
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Re: Military Buffs I need your help.
Narf and others can try
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/hiatomicbomb/manhattan.html
for lots of information and actual documents from the time. Haven't looked through most of it so can't say if it has what you want. But it has alot related to the atomic bombs and the decision to use them.
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December 12th, 2003, 03:34 AM
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Re: Military Buffs I need your help.
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December 12th, 2003, 03:44 AM
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Re: Military Buffs I need your help.
Ah yes... the Truth with a capitol T. 
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December 12th, 2003, 03:54 AM
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Re: Military Buffs I need your help.
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Originally posted by Cyrien:
Ah yes... the Truth with a capitol T.
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Ah yes... the one told by CNN and Fox News
"we are watching Fox" - Simpsons family
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