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Uncle Joe and The Bomb
Topic Started: May 22 2015, 05:43 PM (152 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
A bit revisionist, but I'm sure the Soviets had a lot to do with it. I suspect the Japanese knew it was over when Russians made it to Berlin.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Copper
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70 years later everything is looks different.

Dropping those bombs has had a lasting effect on so many things since then it's impossible to speculate how things would be now if they hadn't been used.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
Indeed. To call Hiroshima and Nagasaki moral wrongs in the context of Japan's savagery over 14 years of war, or even our conventional firebombing of Japan, is ludicrous.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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John D'Oh
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MAMIL
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Ward Hayes Wilson is a Senior Fellow and director of the Rethinking Nuclear Weapons project at the British American Security Information Council, a think tank focusing on nuclear disarmament based in London and Washington, D.C


No bias there, then.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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