View Poll Results: Should the atomic bombs have been dropped?

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  • Yes, they should have been dropped

    15 51.72%

  • No, they should not have been dropped

    9 31.03%

  • It was a different era & time. We cannot judge, now

    5 17.24%
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  1. 30-10-2009, 10:06 AM #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    why didn't they fly a few key Japs & Russki's to the Nevada desert, or Bikini Atoll, and demonstrate the awesome power of the bomb there- "Hey Bud, we've got a few more of these with your name on them"?
    Teller suggested dropping the bomb in Tokyo Bay by way of demonstration. The thing is, I don't think they were absolutely sure what would happen until they actually used the thing on Hiroshima. In hindsight they might at least have tried. I suppose all we can be happy about is that contrary to the wishes of Curtis LeMay and the other right-wing loonies in the US high command they didn't drop it on Kyoto*, which would have constituted an absolutely perfect test site, in the most perverse possible sense of "perfect."

    *Personally I hate Kyoto, but that's beside the point.
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