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2020-07-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-
The day the world changed forever: 75 years ago the first atomic bomb was detonated at dawn during a top-secret US-led nuclear test in the New Mexico desert resulting in a blast so powerful, it could have been seen from Mars
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 'Trinity' was the code name for the secret operation that tested the nuclear bomb in the New Mexico desert before it was dropped on Japan in 1945

  • J Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project and physicist who designed the bomb was not confident the test would work

  • Engineers and scientists involved in the project waged bets on whether the blast would incinerate the entire planet or be a complete dud

  • Army devised contingency plans for the worse case scenario that involved death, damage to surrounding communities and evacuation of nearby residents

  • The detonation was four times larger than the expected maximum and was visible as far away as Amarillo, Texas, 280 miles away

  • Army lied to the public, issuing a fake cover story that the blast was the result of an accidental magazine explosion on base

  • Ash rained on the surrounding landscape for days afterward

  • Upon its staggering success Oppenheimer said: 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds;' the test director said: 'Now we are all sons of b***ches'

  • The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three weeks later, leading to Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of WWII
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-17 00:11|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Funny, I think exactly the say way of the day covid 19 escaped Wuhan labs.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-17 04:21||   2020-07-17 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 ^say ---> same
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-17 04:52||   2020-07-17 04:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Grom, the A-Bomb was always for Japan.
What do you think was for Europe if the War there wasn't over by 1946?
I will give you a hint. It starts with "A" to but it's not atomic.
Posted by 3dc 2020-07-17 06:31||   2020-07-17 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's not forget, they nuked New Mexico first! [before more field testing in Japan]

For the Anti-American trolls, this had already occurred. You've been damn quite out there about that.
Posted by Pro 2020-07-17 06:51||   2020-07-17 06:51|| Front Page Top

#5 oops, that was me.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-17 06:57||   2020-07-17 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 ???
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-07-17 07:51||   2020-07-17 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 ...not sure but I guess this.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-17 08:02||   2020-07-17 08:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I think he meant Anthrax, I think there are some islands in the UK that are no go zones were they were tested.
Posted by Vinegar Spolusing6485 2020-07-17 08:06||   2020-07-17 08:06|| Front Page Top

#9 #7,8 Thanks. 3dc Anthrax doesn't reproduce - so, it's (IMO) Chemical weapon.
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-07-17 08:16||   2020-07-17 08:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Thank God in heaven we got the bomb first.
Posted by Matt 2020-07-17 09:01||   2020-07-17 09:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank the gods it spawned the bikini!
Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-17 09:03||   2020-07-17 09:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Read somewhere that Stalin thought Truman dropped the bomb on Japan as a warning to keep the Red Army out of Western Europe.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-17 13:03||   2020-07-17 13:03|| Front Page Top

#13 I was born 14 years to the day after the second A-bomb was dropped.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-17 13:59||   2020-07-17 13:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Dad always appreciated the bomb. He was in the 10th. They were sent home from Italy, told to get their affairs in order and if they were Catholic to get Last Rites administered.
The bomb ended the war.
In 1998 they finally declassified the 10th's plan. They were to be the expendable 3rd wave at 8 am on the docks at Yokohama.
Posted by 3dc 2020-07-17 15:31||   2020-07-17 15:31|| Front Page Top

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