robert oppenheimer's decisio to drop the bomb in hirishima?
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It was Harry Truman's call.
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The atomic bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, at 8:15 in the morning of August 6, 1945 \n\nNote the spelling....
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It was the development of the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan near the end of WWII.
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Nuclear bomb with something arabic written on it\n\nThat way they have no doubt whats about to happen
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Russia dropped!!!!from an airplane this hugh super H-Bomb...it was meant to scare the US. There is a video of it on the net somewhere. It was the biggest one set off..I found a link to it below
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After allied forces had pushed the Japanese back to their mainland, they still refused to quit fighting.\n\nRefusing to surrender gave Harry Truman (assumed the war time presidency at Roosevelt's death) two choices. Either invade Japan on the ground at the cost of thousands upon thousands of Americans and Japanese lives or drop a bomb and kill thousands of Japanese. \n\nI have a tendency to think Truman already made the decision to drop the bomb but, don't think he thought he would need two!\n\nThe reality: A horrible destiny for a proud people that were lead by a vicious war machine and a  misguided emperor. Thousands of Japanese and their off spring affected for years after.\n\nWas it necessary?
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Faced with the prospect of a direct assault on the Japanese mainland that would have cost millions of lives, many American, president Truman chose the “nuclear option”. The humanitarian consideration of destroying civilian populations to neutralize military targets is gut wrenching for the leader of a moral society. From the American perspective, especially those that would have lead the assault, it was the correct decision.
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Sure, anytime we become complacent, assume the rest of the world thinks like us (your typical liberal) and spend less on the defense of our country we set ourselves up for another suprise attack.\n\nThere are probably hundreds of potential places right now, but none SO vulnerable that we'll lose the majority of our naval fleet like in 1941. Even then we DIDN'T lose any carriers and were able to engage the enemy within a year. \n\nThe Japaneses screwed up and decided NOT to send a THIRD wave of bombers/fighters and didn't completely cripple our naval capacity, especially our carriers. \n\nAir power is so much more advanced now that even though we could be suprised we would still have the capability to respond quickly and decisively to any attack on our navy. \n\nThat's why our enemies should remember Adm. Yamamoto famous quote after the attack, " I fear all we have done is wake a sleeping giant and given him great resolve."
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The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan were on cities with no significant military targets. I had family on both sides of WWII and lost family on both sides. Dropping the atomic bombs took a lot of consideration from the government back then and decided that it was the only option they had to avoid large scale death invading, both to the US and to Japanese civilians. If it had to be done, then I agree with you, why not a legitimate target? Pearl Harbor was a military target attack by "surprise". The Japanese officials who were to deliver the notice of war that morning were delayed in a US waiting room and were not able to deliver the notice prior to the attack. War history is written by the victors, so it was a surprise. To rally America into war, the President called it a surprise in his radio address. I ask any of you to take a trip to Hiroshima and visit the museum. My mother's family was on the other side of the mountain range from Nagasaki and that is what saved them, but they did witness the cloud, had some affect of the fire, and saw the destruction when they went to help. Japan's research at the time determined that the bomb was not possible with the technology available, so they did not believe the US's claim they had it. Japan was negotiating for surrender after the first but the US want unconditional, so dropped the second. I understand the decision to drop, just not the target.\n\nPaulHalloway-I do disagree with you on the legitemacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being military targets. May 1945 the target committee listed Hiroshima as a class AA target using year old inteligence. The depot had been moved in Oct 1944. Nagasaki was never on the Target committee's list. The only other reason for Hiroshima to be targeted was the terrain and larger city. Mountains around Hiroshima would increase the affects of the blast and the size of the city  would allow that if the bomb was off target, would still cause mass distruction and casualties. It was also in the original plan recommendation to follow the bombing by an incendiary bombing of the city. Also the orders from Gen Spaatz on July 1945, identified the city as the target, not any military base, contrary to Truman's direction to Sec. of War Stimson.
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Hey i thought about that before too! it would look really weird with just a column of storerooms(the bombshelter) left standing after the place is bombed. So do we open the storeroom door and step out and die? \n\nBut I think it was just the concept. As much as it was meant as a preventive measure, we know jolly well this day won't come and the architects probably know therefore, they didn't think how we're gonna get out of the storerooms.
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In the case of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on Japan, there was a World War going on with Japan using military power to take over countries all over the world.  The United States was a non-participant in these events until it was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor, thereby declaring war on the United States and opening itself up to attack by United States forces.\n\nJapan had declared that there would be no surrender and it had begun arming all of its civilians to resist invasion.  The estimated death toll from a direct assault on the main island of Japan was in the millions based on extrapolation of the death toll from the capture of Okinawa.\n\nAs for North Korea, there has yet to be a declared war between North Korea and the United States and while there are scattered conflicts occurring throughout the world, there is definately not a war of the scale of World War II currently happening.\n\nThe decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan was calculated to end one conflict, the one with Japan.  There was never any belief that these events would bring an end to all the war in the world. History has shown that there will always be another power to step in and fill the void when another power is removed or collapses. If Korea did follow your suggestion to attack the United States with nuclear weapons and was successful in toppling the United States, that would merely create a vaccuum for the next power to step into.\n\nIf your plan follows the same path as post World War II, that would merely place North Korea in the position of being the world's superpower and having them "bully" their way around the world, eventually leading to someone from another nation, perhaps a South American country, to post a similar question, this time being "North Koreans say, NK nuked US to end the war. Is it acceptable, Argentina nuke NK to end the war in the world?"
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In a 2-megaton explosion over a fairly large city, buildings would be vaporized, people reduced to atoms and shadows, outlying structures blown down like matchsticks and raging fires ignited. And if the bomb were exploded on the ground, an enormous crater, like those that can be seen through a telescope on the surface of the Moon, would be all that remained where midtown once had been. \n\nThere are now more than 50,000 nuclear weapons, more than 13,000 megatons of yield, deployed in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union -- enough to obliterate a million Hiroshimas. \n\nBut there are fewer than 3000 cities on the Earth with populations of 100,000 or more. You cannot find anything like a million Hiroshimas to obliterate. Prime military and industrial targets that are far from cities are comparatively rare. Thus, there are vastly more nuclear weapons than are needed for any plausible deterrence of a potential adversary.
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according to an article on Newtype magazine\nthe next GITS SAC, mayor Motoko Kusanagi is no longer part of Sectio 9\n\nhow sad !!!
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1945 Harry Truman had the Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan.You don`t need any frequency with that action,that was up there with the holocaust,but the world seems to separate the two acts of carnage.
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we dropped lots and lots and lots of bombs on japan, too many to count or even name each one...so i take you are talking about the atomic ones named: fatman and little boy\n\nLittle Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets. Tibbets had named the plane Enola Gay after his mother the night before the atomic attack.\n\nMajor Charles W. Sweeney piloted the B-29, #77 that dropped Fat Man. After the nuclear mission, #77 was christened Bockscar after its regular Command Pilot, Fred Bock.\n\non an ineresting note, one reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were picked as locations was due in large part to the fact that we had already destroyed much of every other city through fire-bombing.
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They already have it! It is called a Grid Square MRE Bomb! It is freaking awesome! Ithink there is actual footage of it on the internet!
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i think you should replace the word annex with the words, bomb, obliterate, nuke, decimate, etc....