Posted on Sep 14, 2018
At Kansas City's Truman Library, Artists Drop A Replica Bomb For World Peace
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What if the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 failed to detonate? A writer and an artist ask that question at the Truman Library and Museum as part of Kansas City’s Open Spaces arts festival, which has a roomy-enough sphere of exhibitions for various thought experiments, both the viewers’ and the artists’.
At Kansas City's Truman Library, Artists Drop A Replica Bomb For World Peace
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The brutal truth is that the Kamikaze's were burning sailors at a fast rate and the Army needed the Navy both for support and to keep the island campaign a success. So when the Navy threatened to "leave if the Kamikaze problem was not addressed," the Army listened. It was known that the Japanese were hoarding aircraft and creating dummies. The Army had to protect the Navy by removing the Navy's threat. A Col. Le May came up with a novel idea: firebombing the Japanese. The firebombing raids were so brutal that the emperor himself demanded that all aircraft be detailed for defending the home islands. Had the atom bombs been duds, the invasion of Japan would have proceeded and along with it, thirty days of preliminary bombing. This was firebombing. This means anywhere from 75000 - 120000 dead Japanese per day.
So the atom bombs saved lives for all intents and purposes.
So the atom bombs saved lives for all intents and purposes.
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/h-bomb-lost-in-spain
The movie I just sent in was kinda based on this, I think....
The movie I just sent in was kinda based on this, I think....
On this day, a B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain’s Mediterranean coast, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear_weapon_loss_incident
An oldie but goodie....
An oldie but goodie....
1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident - Wikipedia
The 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident was an inadvertent nuclear weapon release over Mars Bluff, South Carolina, during 1958. The bomb, which lacked the fissile nuclear core, fell over the area, causing damage to buildings below.[1] Six people were injured by the explosion of the bomb's conventional explosive load. The United States Air Force (USAF) was sued by the family of the victims, who received US$54,000, equivalent to...
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