mercedo's Journal: A-Bomb

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.

I still would have liked to see the Bat Bomb used

[Marxist Hacker 42]

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

Re:I still would have liked to see the Bat Bomb us

[kesuki]

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 j

Re:I still would have liked to see the Bat Bomb us

[Marxist Hacker 42]

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 litt

From the bird's eyes,

[iminplaya]

they must have been seeing just humans were animals that killing themselves.

Very well put. The birds would be correct in that assumption.

Re:From the bird's eyes,

[mercedo]

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'.

Thanks.