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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
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-17 00:11|| || Front Page|| [11130 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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