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Posted: 8/9/2005 1:59:54 AM EDT
And the Mayor of Nagasaki is still sulking!
www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13405528,00.html Some great photos of this mission, the Hiroshima mission and the 509th can be found here, definately worth a check! www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/COLLECTIONS/CG-JPAP/Pages-3/JPAP_Gallery_Directory.htm   This photo shows how the bomb missed the centre of Nagasaki and fell into the Urakami Valley, limiting the effect of the bomb.  ANdy |
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Posted: 8/9/2005 2:17:28 AM EDT
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For a minute there I thought you were celebrating a members BDay.
And yes, I have learned to love the bomb. Sgatr15 |
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Posted: 8/9/2005 2:22:42 AM EDT
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The plutonium was made right here in southeastern Washington.
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Posted: 8/9/2005 2:30:39 AM EDT
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Makes me proud to be a resident of Oak Ridge, TN - the "secret city" that built the bombs.
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Posted: 8/9/2005 2:35:24 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/9/2005 2:51:27 AM EDT
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I have lived in the Tri-City area. The plutonium is STILL there. SGatr15 |
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Posted: 8/9/2005 2:54:31 AM EDT
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True Story:
Back when the Prime Minister of Japan made his comments about Americans being "Lazy and Illiterate", we had a group of Japanese visitors to our plant. It was a Union Shop, so people got to do pretty much what they wanted.... So, we read about this the day that the Japanese are to arrive and one of the guys hangs a big-assed sign off his toolbox saying: "We may be Lazy and Illiterate, but we build a Dandy Bomb!" |
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Posted: 8/9/2005 2:59:17 AM EDT
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 This is the target photo of Nagasaki. The intended aimpoint was the Mitsubishi Plant indicated by the 6, the red circle shows were it actually fell, and the high hills to the lower right shielded the main town from the worst of the blast. If the bomb had fallen at the top of the harbor were it was intended it would have entirely destroyed Nagasaki and probably killed at least double what it did. |
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Posted: 8/9/2005 3:37:46 AM EDT
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War is Hell.
Period. Eric The(AtomicBlastSurvivor)Hun 
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Posted: 8/9/2005 6:08:43 AM EDT
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And Lord Krishna said to Arjuna, his disciple, "I am Death, the destroyer of worlds..."
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 11. Korea, Pakistan/India, and finally Iran...the clock is ticking. 
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Posted: 8/9/2005 6:13:53 AM EDT
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Two mile from where part of the bombs were designed and built.
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Posted: 8/9/2005 6:18:46 AM EDT
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What were the Mayor of Nagasakis last words?
"What the fuck was that"? 
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Posted: 8/9/2005 6:28:37 AM EDT
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I resent that!  I'm only 39 today... and I'm not fat! (I'm just big-boned.  )
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Posted: 8/9/2005 9:23:27 AM EDT
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I understand the bomb missed by 1 1/2 miles. How did that happen?
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Posted: 8/9/2005 9:29:39 AM EDT
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Wind currents. Dropped from High Altitude, with an unproven areodynamic config. 
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Posted: 8/9/2005 9:30:51 AM EDT
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It was dropped through a brief hole in an exceptionally thick cloud cover while the B-29 was dangerously low on gas. The crew's orders were to make ONLY a visual drop, not a radar one. Therefore, they had to keep circling the city until a small opening formed in the clouds. All that added to the difficulty of making an accurate drop. |
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Posted: 8/9/2005 9:31:29 AM EDT
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Cool, thanks guys.
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Posted: 8/9/2005 9:48:10 AM EDT
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Too bad we didn't have our own kamikaze pilots back then to guide the bomb to the target. 
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Posted: 8/9/2005 10:40:41 AM EDT
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Sweeney was so short of fuel he had to divert to Okinawa and do an emergency landing, he barely made it. As they touched down his no 2 engine died and two others started spluttering. When they refuelled it was calculated there had only been 7 gallons left in the tanks!
ANdy |
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Posted: 8/9/2005 10:41:14 AM EDT
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The second bomb - 'Fat Man' - was made of Plutonium manufactured at Hanford, in Washington State. It was ten times more powerful than the first bomb, which was a different design, made with Uranium from Oak Ridge.
I know this to be true; For I am a graduate of Richland High -- Home of the "Bombers" ! 
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