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Re:Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films by omarchowdhury on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:51PM (#13889542)
Yeah. They could have also dropped the nukes into the ocean. Surely that would have forced surrender without the loss of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Re:Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films by CamperBob2 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @08:18PM (#13890319)
Considering that we had to nuke two actual cities to get them to surrender, how many bombs would we have had to drop in the ocean to achieve the same effect?

I don't know about you, but I'd only have to be nuked once before I'd run up the proverbial white flag.

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