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Oppenheimer Movie Review
TimFox:
Are you afraid of them? It seems it has worked.
David Hess:
--- Quote from: Bud on August 04, 2023, 04:40:29 am ---
--- Quote from: David Hess on August 02, 2023, 11:46:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: dietert1 on August 02, 2023, 08:05:35 am ---You may feel uncomfortable with this, but shouldn't we consider people who used nuclear weapons on towns with hundreds of thousands of people terrorists? Think about it.
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Luckily for those people, they were on the side which won the war.
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Next time they may not be that lucky.
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There was no next time for them, and most or all of them have died of old age by now. So you must be referring to some even which has not happened yet involving a different group of people.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: peter-h on August 02, 2023, 08:27:10 am ---As was correctly pointed out in the film, the same number was killed daily with conventional bombing, and brought Japan no nearer to surrender.
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Not many people know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki where arguably not the biggest single bombings of all time. The bombing raid of Tokyo was bigger and resulted in more destruction and death than either of the nuclear bombs. It just took around 280 B-29 bombers instead of 1.
coppice:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 07, 2023, 12:46:16 am ---
--- Quote from: peter-h on August 02, 2023, 08:27:10 am ---As was correctly pointed out in the film, the same number was killed daily with conventional bombing, and brought Japan no nearer to surrender.
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Not many people know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki where arguably not the biggest single bombings of all time. The bombing raid of Tokyo was bigger and resulted in more destruction and death than either of the nuclear bombs. It just took around 280 B-29 bombers instead of 1.
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Dresden was a bigger event than any single attack on Tokyo, but a lot more bombers were used to get the firestorm going.
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: coppice on August 07, 2023, 12:52:53 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 07, 2023, 12:46:16 am ---
--- Quote from: peter-h on August 02, 2023, 08:27:10 am ---As was correctly pointed out in the film, the same number was killed daily with conventional bombing, and brought Japan no nearer to surrender.
--- End quote ---
Not many people know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki where arguably not the biggest single bombings of all time. The bombing raid of Tokyo was bigger and resulted in more destruction and death than either of the nuclear bombs. It just took around 280 B-29 bombers instead of 1.
--- End quote ---
Dresden was a bigger event than any single attack on Tokyo, but a lot more bombers were used to get the firestorm going.
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I would say that the 2 Nukes gave the Japanese a legitimate reason for surrender without completely loosing face. On the other hand, I wonder if at the time they knew the US only had those 2 bombs. A reasonable fear would be that instead of 200 flights to demolish a single city, they might have thought that 200 nukes, 1 per B-29 could completely flatten their entire country in 1 day. And again a week later. Never stopping.
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