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Originally Posted by Vampyr
I applaud the man for having the balls to actually push the button. I could never have done that. Never. I applaud him for that.
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Just wanted to point something out here:
The bombardier of the Enola Gay (the plane that dropped the bomb over Hiroshima) didn't know what kind of bomb he was carrying. All he knew was that he was on a mission to get over Hiroshima and then drop this Little Boy over the city. One of the captains of the plane actually scrawled "My God, what have we done?!" into his journal right after seeing te mushroom cloud. He got quite a shock, but he wasn't really as brave as you made him out to be.
And let's get some dates straight here, shall we?
August 6, 1945 - Little Boy dropped over Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 - Fat Man dropped over Nagasaki
August 14, 1945 - Japan surrenders
Make of all that what you will. Just keep in mind that you weren't there and that you have a hell of a lot more information about everything than President Truman did.