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!historychads pic related was taken 15 minutes after the nuke detonated.
It was dropped by the B-29 Bockscar, commanded by USAAF captain Frederick C. Bock
Here's a pic of Fat Man, it was an implosion type weapon and carried plutonium was fissile material.
The chonker responsible for anime 
Is it really dramatic? Then just put it in the main feed.
Is it chuddy? (Be honest.) Then /h/chudrama.
Is it from back in old boomer times or before?
This is the place for it.
Feel free to talk about history here at
whatever level of seriousness you feel like.
.webp?h=8 "Top Hat (black) - Traditional. Classy. Elegant.")
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semi-related, the guy who flew the enola gay got in trouble for recreating the bombing of hiroshima in 1976
he also never felt any guilt over the bombing
!historychads based??
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To begin with, they were murdering people every day in China on Holocaust levels. This guy saved more lives than anyone else in history.
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unironically reading what the japanese did to the chinese in ww2 made me realize that two bombs wasn't enough
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It really is unreal how evil they were. During the liberation of the Philippines, 10,000 jap Marines basically deserted to hole up in manilla and massacre 100,000 civilians before it was recaptured. They would do things like lock civilians in hospitals and blow them up. It's not even like this was a top down thing, they wanted to tape and murder so badly.
"Violent mutilations, r*pes, and massacres occurred in schools, hospitals and convents"
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While I still think targeting civilians is an intrinsically evil act, neither my family or the in-laws have ever spoken positively about the Japs.
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Omnicidal anti-human demon worshippers burned away in atomic fire
My grandfather was a Marine during WW2 as well. He never ate rice after that until the day he died of melanoma, and he would celebrate VJ day every year with a tall glass of scotch neat
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When mine returned he continued to love SOS "shit on a shingle" (creamed chip beef in cream on toast) and Vienna sausages for the rest of his life, and got a real kick out of introducing the grandkids to those WW2 MRE staples and seeing us actually enjoy them.
If the bombs had targeted military sites I wouldn't have mixed feelings, but it's tribalism rather than consistent morality to condemn Nazi/Jap atrocities and excuse Allied ones. We didn't even issue the standard warning period like in other firebombing campaigns.
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It was a global total war with ongoing industrial scale genocide. Each day it dragged on was condemning at minimum thousands more to die daily. In that scenario the civilian populace of the perpetrating nations were legitimate and proportionate military targets.
It's my heresy, and you're not going to change my mind on this one
I also find Peter 2:18 objectionable if you want a fun one. New age translations will make it nicer by replacing slave with servant
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The Battle of Manila should never have happened, to begin with, but Yamashita's r-slurred Nip subordinate disobeyed orders to vacate the city and dug in. Thus, Manila became the second most destroyed city in the war, after Warsaw, and Yamashita got the rope.
Because of that alone, LeMay should have authorized atomic blanketing of the entire Japanese archipelago and allowed the gooks and chinks to rampage after the clouds have dissipated for Total Jap Death
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I'm an unironic weaboo (tho I don't watch anime), I love Japan. But I also know those motherlovers deserved every kiloton and a whole lot more.
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Japan is great post-American subjagation.
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In retrospect, what if instead we'd let them kill more Chinese in order to ensure a future with no anime AND a capitalist China?
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One of the real big what ifs in history is what if Japan had been beaten before the huge offensive in 1944 that pretty much destroyed the KMT. If it wasn't for that, China would have never gone commie and they'd probably be making movies that aren't total shit now. Or was it Zhang Yimou's horrible experiences in the Cultural Revolution that made him creative?
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I liked Hero
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Made by Zhang Yimou. Good movie but I prefer his earlier works like The Story of Qiu Ju.
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What the frick happened to Asia? Theirs just not any good movies from them anymore. They should've had so much going for them.
I want to see more movies about Asians being really good at being Asian.
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Mainland Chinese movies all have some kind of pro-china message, which really stifles creativity / universal appeal imo. Still, there are a few good directors like Zhang Yimou
Taiwan and HK movies are great (imo) but they have very low budgets. South Korea has some good ones, and they're ruthless capitalists so the production value is typically pretty good. And Japan, obviously, has some decent stuff, mostly anime.
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I thought the mainland had a large population. How do you have a low budget movie industry? Did they give your tax money to the moon probe or w/e they're sending up there?
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The mainland has decent budgets but they're all dedicated to wolf warrior or ancient Chinese history movie #81, and they're very niche from a global market perspective.
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Did mao zedong help the japanese or is that something i made up just now?
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They're right because there is some probability >0 that none of them would've died while taking over their motherland.
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I don't get it
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don't worry your pretty little head about it babe
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Catch these kisses!
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We can fix that
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Frick, that is frickin funny
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Fun fact: fill a fission bomb with a lil bit of tritium and you can double the explosive power of the fissile material, aka boosted fission, aka fission-fusion-fission
!ifrickinglovescience !physics !burgers
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The Tsar Bomba worked that way didn't it?
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Sort of.
For more clarity for our viewers, here is how a Fission bomb works, and the how a Fission bomb acts as the ignition source for a Fusion bomb.
A Fission bomb uses either Plutonium or Uranium as its fuel source. The metal is shaped into a hollow sphere. The goal is to quickly smoosh all of that metal into as small of a size as possible so that all the fuel is it keep emitting neutrons at itself to create a nuclear chain reaction. This is done with non-nuclear explosives.
When the fission portion detonates, you get the equivalent of the Fat Man or Little Boy and blow up a small town. However, one of its effects is a massive amount of X-Rays, which is important.
Those X-Rays are the ignition source for the second part -- Fusion.
In a two-stage nuke, the Fission portion is merely fuze for the Fusion portion. To calculate the difference in energy release, just calculate E=mc² with m being the mass defect in the reaction.
Theoretically you can just keep adding more Fusion stages, but you get diminishing returns once you calculate the volume and all that shit.
!ifrickinglovescience !physics !engineering !gaysex
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no way
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But what about a purified hydrogen bomb?
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That's definitely one way to prevent STDs
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The precious tritium?
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Well half deuterium and half tritium
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I learned everything I know about science from those 1960s Time-Life books (if you don't know what I'm talking about keep yourself safe immediately zoomer
) but I never knew this until about 5 years ago. They were very open about the basic concepts of fission -> fusion but fission -> fusion -> fission was I guess a secret in the '60s. And then after that the next generation just didn't give a shit about any of that if they weren't scientists.
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Nobody has ever deserved anything as much as the Japanese deserved the nukes.
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Idk I deserve my presents from santa just as much, I'm a good girl all year
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Enola Gay
Little Boy
Fat Man
who tf was in charge of naming
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I somehow never knew this but the Enola Gay was named after the pilots mom
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The pilots named their own planes, so a bunch of early 20s white men.
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Yeah seriously. You just invented the most destructive weapon the world has ever seen, with the power to literally erase civilization as we know it, and these are the names you come up with?
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I'd name my bomber Two For Flinching or Fervent Negotiator. Call the first bomb Big Stick to be patriotic.
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I'd name it NipNuker5000
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Rice Cooker would also be acceptable.
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die and be bald
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Did you know that the pilot for nagasaki wasn't even supposed to drop the bomb? It was too cloudy but he dropped it anyway. Went way off target and blew up the wrong part of nagasaki, but we had to pretend thatit wad on purpose for decades until some stuff was declassified.
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It worked out in the end god bless.
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The only good gwar song
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What experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
-- Georg Hegel
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