A-Bomb
2005.08.03 1:40

BBC has been featuring a special 60th aniversary for Hiroshima atomic bomb on 6th of August.
In the second world war, the death toll of Russians are believed to be 20 million, in which 10 million were dead in battle regardless whether they are civilians or combatants. (Another 10 million were by famine, cold, epidemic, etc.)
Death toll of German, European Jews, and Japanese were almost the same -6 million. In the case of Chinese the figure is severer- it is countless - no official report could be found.
From the bird's eyes, they must have been seeing just humans were animals that killing themselves.
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I still would have liked to see the Bat Bomb used(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.08.03 3:48 (#13224067) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.09.28 6:49)
It was a competing- and just as complex- project to the A-bomb. Basically, the idea was to capture 20,000 bats from Carlsbad Caverns. Up to 400 at a time would be put into hibernation, and have incendiary devices on timers strapped to their legs. The "bomb" was just a refrigerator with it's own power source, and a trigger that let the bats out and started the random timers. The idea was to drop it over Tokyo just before dawn. At dawn, the now awakened bats would seek darkness- finding the little hidden nooks and crannies in any city. Throughout the day, the timers would go off- and the bats would vanish in a flash of flame. No boom- but you could imagine what that would do to pre-WWII Tokyo's contruction techniques of wood and rice paper. In it's test, no human beings were killed- but the fire department at Camp Pendelton, California, was kept very busy over the next 48 hours because some idiot used live incediaries instead of the radio locators on the bats.The "failure" of this test (actually a complete success from a purely scientific point of view) caused the Bat Bomb Project to fail- and the Manhattan Project to succeed, with it's horrific results at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Both would likely have pierced Japanese defenses of the time- a single plane, laughed at by Japanese defenders who were used to seeing massive bombing raids- can create a lot of damage with a Bat Bomb or an A-Bomb.--Two chances to become a Dictator- and Bush blew them both!
Re:I still would have liked to see the Bat Bomb us(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2005.08.03 4:34 (#13224561) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2005.10.01 13:42)
Think of the 'poor' bats though it's far better that we simple nuked them, i mean we only killed every living thing within the kill zone.also, your 'bat bomb' wouldn't have been nearly as devistating as you might think. If it 'failed' to kill people in the city involved it was useless, the japanese spirit would not be broken by burning mere buildings to the ground.thousands of bats lives were spared, so that hundreds of thousands of humans could die of the blast and radiation poisoning. Keep in mind the japanese were given a full week to surrender prior to the second bomb, which may not have been enough time given that we'd already blown up their communications network etc with conventional bombing raids.. but still any _sane_ people who had no way to retaliate would surrender when given an ultimatum like 'surrender or we blow another of your cities off the face of the map.'you don't go 'you'll have to kill us all' unless you're crazy ;)--This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original... [ Parent ]
Re:I still would have liked to see the Bat Bomb us(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.08.03 4:53 (#13224778) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.09.28 6:49)
also, your 'bat bomb' wouldn't have been nearly as devistating as you might think. If it 'failed' to kill people in the city involved it was useless, the japanese spirit would not be broken by burning mere buildings to the ground. Different point. The Bat Bomb scenario was designed to force Japanese surrender in an entirely different way. No buildings might have been destroyed and no people killed- but the fire department would have wasted plenty of gasoline driving around the city to all the random little fires. The idea wasn't to actually destroy anything other than the Japanese gasoline supply to stop the suicide runs on American aircraft carrier groups. Sneaky, in a way, using up the resources that way. And it would only work against an already beaten enemy.--Two chances to become a Dictator- and Bush blew them both! [ Parent ]
From the bird's eyes,(Score:1)
by iminplaya (723125) on 2005.08.03 9:30 (#13227052) (Last Journal: 2005.09.04 7:21)
they must have been seeing just humans were animals that killing themselves.Very well put. The birds would be correct in that assumption.--Oooo...standing for the Queen, are we? RTFM [bfi.org]
Re:From the bird's eyes,(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.08.05 23:36 (#13249605) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.01 16:45)
That's what I really wanted to say in this JE. And also the title 'a-bomb' either means atomic bomb and one bomb. Atomic bomb kills tens of thousands of people instantly, one bomb kills fewer than atomic bomb but in that they both kill people, its nature is the same. So I titled 'a-bomb' instead of mentioning specifically 'atomic'.
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