Bobj Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 A moment in history. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/us/30vankirk.html Cheers, Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbye grey sky Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Similar feeling to hearing of the death of Neil Armstrong or the last WW1 Tommy. When the person or people involved in a historic event is gone it changes something from a living history to one for the history books only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest66881 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 A very brave act they undertook that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobj Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 Heard, or read that about 140,000 people perished in 1 second in that blast. What a frightening weapon in the wrong hands.:arghh: Cheers, Bobj. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbye grey sky Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I can understand the reasoning for dropping the bomb but being the person delivering it would take a heavy toll on anyone's conscience. The legacy of that one event has shaped the lives of baby boomers such as I and probably done more to prevent a global conflict in my lifetime than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildrover Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 My hat off to these guys without what they did many more lives would have been lost Quotes from Oppenheimer "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." It worked! (after the Trinity test) If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of the nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people of this world must unite or they will perish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest66881 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yeah the day took lives and many of them suffered after effects, but that said it saved millions more lives by being dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Les Patterson Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yeah the day took lives and many of them suffered after effects, but that said it saved millions more lives by being dropped. Yes,it sure did....the first bomb (Little Boy) that exploded over Hiroshima was a gun type fission weapon that used U-235 as it's fissile material. There has been much written that the second bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki (Fat Man) was unnecessary as it was an implosion type Plutonium weapon and that the only reason it was dropped was to see which fissile material was the most effective.......it turned out Plutonium was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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