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Skriven 2013-10-02 19:53:54 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 10550 av alexander koryagin (2:5020/2140.2)
Ärende: Putin Blinks
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Hello Alexander,

 ak>> But we know Truman's reaction only -- he liked the results of the
 ak>> first bomb so much that he decided to drop the second one.

 LL>> Truman liked what he was told about the results of the atomic bomb
 LL>> test. Based on what he was told about that test, he made the
 LL>> decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In order to speed up
 LL>> the process to force an unconditional surrender of Japan, Truman
 LL>> then ordered the destruction of Nagasaki by atomic hellfire. Not
 LL>> sure what Truman would have done had the Japanese Emperor chosen
 LL>> the honorable path of suicide by sword.

AK>Some people here tell stories that Truman did not knew, did not
AK>ordered.  That it was done behind his back.

Truman's critics would say anything in efforts to discredit him.
Not much different than what goes on today, such as Obama's critics
attempting to discredit him from having offed Osama bin Laden.

 RW>> Truman didn't know the true power of the 1st bomb (July 1945)
 RW>> until they dropped the 2nd bomb on August 6, 1945 over Hiroshima.
 RW>> The 1st bomb was exploded at White Sands, New Mexico the month
 RW>> before.

 AK>> So, how do you say that Truman didn't know the A-bomb destructive
 AK>> power after the testing had been done? It was exactly the testing
 AK>> had shown the destructiveness of the A-bomb.

 LL>> The testing of the atomic bomb was not done on real live human
 LL>> beings.

AK>But how do we understand the bomb power, expressed in TNT kilotons?

BIG BOOM vs. little boom.

AK>Do we suppose to think that if a bomb has 20 kilotons it will
AK>cause the damage close to a one bomb stuffed with 20000 metric
AK>tons of TNT?

All that was known (or surmised) at the time was that the atomic bomb
to be dropped on Hiroshima was to be the BIGGEST BOOM of all time.

AK>Well, I know why you play the fool. Because it is impossible to live
AK>with it without vindicating yourself.

President Harry S Truman vindicated himself by getting the US involved
in Korea and retiring General Douglas MacArthur.

 RW>>>> "Years later, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, in his memoirs, disclosed
 RW>>>> that that night (Potsdam) Stalin ordered a telegram sent to those
 RW>>>> working on the atomic bomb in Russia to hurry with the job."
 RW>>>> Charles E. Bohlen, Witness to History 1929-1969 (New York: W. W.
 RW>>>> Norton, 1973) pp. 247-248.
 AK>>> Actually, the matter is that theoretically an A-bomb was invented
 AK>>> a good time before the WW2, and everybody knew of it. It was not a
 AK>>> matter of complexity to do it, it was the matter of technology.

 LL>> Many scientists around the world were aware of that discovery. The
 LL>> US, Germany, and Japan were all working towards development of an
 LL>> atomic bomb, even before hostilities broke out. However, the Nazis
 LL>> had help. From beings outside this universe. These beings looked
 LL>> kind of like us, except with blue skin. Werner Van Braun leaked
 LL>> that info out to a journalist who was investigating a rumor that
 LL>> Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis escaped Berlin in an
 LL>> invention known as "the bell." This new contraption could
 LL>> supposedly travel through time and space, thus enabling the Nazis
 LL>> to win the war...

AK>How a mean of escaping can help win the war? ;-)

You will have to watch the cult classic "Iron Sky" to find out. ;)

Iron Sky: The Reich Strikes Back
The story is about Nazis on the Moon, preparing to invade the Earth.
Lots of pretty Frauleins, and mad dictators, too.

The Nazis did in fact build real flying saucers during WWII.
Whether they actually travelled to the Moon is open conjecture.  ;)

--Lee

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