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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 06:28 PM
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20. The bomb changed everything.
It made all those invasion plans moot.

Construction on the "B" reactor at Hanford began in March 1943, it went critical September 13, 1944.

Once the nuclear time line was clear, "Operation Olympic" was nothing more than a public relations program, a way to say, "Well, we had to use the bomb because...

It was bullshit.

We fully committed to the bomb December 2, 1942, the day Chicago Pile 1 was successfully lit.
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  -Imagine for a minute the US did not possess any nuclear weapons NNN0LHI  Apr-17-10 06:24 PM   #0 
  - And there is absolutely NO additional context? None? Zip? Zero? Nada? Zilch?  BlooInBloo   Apr-17-10 06:29 PM   #1 
  - Yep. If Iran knows what is in its best interest, it will build nukes soon.  tekisui   Apr-17-10 06:31 PM   #2 
  - Recommended.  Truth2Tell   Apr-17-10 06:35 PM   #3 
  - Then why does Iran continually make threats to wipe Israel off the map? N/T  GreenStormCloud   Apr-17-10 06:41 PM   #4 
  - Huh, could you show the reference for Iran threatening to wipe Israel off the map?  protocol rv   Apr-17-10 07:56 PM   #11 
     - Google is your friend.  GreenStormCloud   Apr-18-10 08:52 AM   #16 
     - Really then you haven't tried real hard n/t  Statistical   Apr-18-10 08:45 PM   #22 
  - I would trust Allah to smite the infidels by magic electric bolts from heaven.  Mother Smuckers   Apr-17-10 06:45 PM   #5 
  - any country that doesn't have nukes is asking for trouble from the US.  provis99   Apr-17-10 07:05 PM   #6 
  - Ah yes, that bastion of human rights and freedom, North Korea, is safe  Dreamer Tatum   Apr-17-10 07:12 PM   #9 
  - In that completely context-free world, all actions are rationalizable  Dreamer Tatum   Apr-17-10 07:10 PM   #7 
  - i'd feel that you are being utterly ridiculous  pitohui   Apr-17-10 07:11 PM   #8 
  - Hypotheticals are great, but Iran isn't being invaded presently.  MUAD_DIB   Apr-17-10 07:15 PM   #10 
  - Correction  protocol rv   Apr-17-10 08:01 PM   #12 
     - True up to a point. They did not have nuclear weapons  Thothmes   Apr-17-10 08:26 PM   #13 
     - History is lost on some people.  MUAD_DIB   Apr-17-10 09:36 PM   #15 
        - History has been lost on you.  hunter   Apr-18-10 09:47 AM   #17 
           - Sorry, you're wrong. Now why is that?  MUAD_DIB   Apr-18-10 04:45 PM   #19 
              - The bomb changed everything.  hunter   Apr-18-10 06:28 PM   #20 
                 - Being fully comitted to the bomb does not mean that the bomb  MUAD_DIB   Apr-18-10 07:36 PM   #21 
                    - We're the ones who showed the world...  hunter   Apr-18-10 09:19 PM   #24 
                       - I disagree with your assessment....  MUAD_DIB   Apr-18-10 11:01 PM   #25 
     - 1) Eventually the theocracy called Iran will have that ability.  MUAD_DIB   Apr-17-10 09:26 PM   #14 
     - Iran has no nuclear weapons but to say they don't have technology to enrich is stupid.  Statistical   Apr-18-10 08:48 PM   #23 
  - Casting Iran as the "victims" really isn't working for me.  Arkana   Apr-18-10 09:50 AM   #18 
 

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