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Originally Posted by bobbymcgill
Today is the 63rd birthday of the first nuclear explosion. And, ironically so, the world is a safer place because of it. Kinda sick isn't it. But when compared to the well over 100 million war casualities of the first 50 years of the 20th century, we are doing pretty well.
I will spare you the now cliche' quote by Oppenheimer when he witnessed the explosion, but in the end he was not the "destroyer of worlds." But, there is still time left to annihilate ourselves, so worry not.
My question to the group is: If you could turn back time, would you have done things differently? Any ideas on the future? (Or lack thereof?)
Bobby
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Would have done the same thing. Who knew that radiation was harmful!!
Anyways look at the benefits we got from that bang. We saved probably 1 million US causualities and maybe 5 million Japanese were saved. Now let us not forget that we saved Japan from being partitioned into the good allies zone and the Soviet occupation zone. If we had to devidde JAPAN with the Evil Empire they would nver be the economic powerhouse that they are today.
We did the Japanese one BIG favor by dropping those b 0 mbs on them and keeping the Soviet Slugs away from them. The JAPANESE SHOULD BE FOEVER GRATEFULL TO US FOR THAT ACT OF HUMAN KINDNESS!!!!