A-Bombing Germany

[cheddar cheese]

cool

[Gemhorse]

I think they were the tests at Bikini Atoll and the Marshall Islands, back in the '60's...'rather more' powerful than a Grand Slam...they still can't let the Marshall Islanders back there...they're US Welfare beneficiaries, still living on another island...

[Lightning Guy]

Those weren't unground detonations though. Those were underwater and were designed to see what a nuke would do to a carrier group. These penatrating nukes are something new. They are designed to take out underground caves that conventional bunker busters can't reach.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

they do the same in the bond film "view to a kill", which is sooooo the best bond film....................

[ahanswurst]

Without a doubt it would have been a B-29 to drop an atomic bomb on Germany if need be. But the Russians would have leveled Germany before an atomic bomb was needed. When The Russians captured Berlin and took German prisoners back to Russia. The History Channel had a series on the fall of Berlin and they said that 3/4's of the German prisoners taken by the Russians disappeared without a trace after they were marched back to Russia. I think the atomic bomb would never have been needed in Germany. The Russian troops were well equipped by that stage of the war. The History channel also said that in the Berlin area that most of the German females were raped numerous times by the Russian soldiers and a lot of German women commited suicide to escape that fate.

[Lightning Guy]

So nuking Germany might have saved lives. Interesting thought.

[plan_D]

I doubt it, it would have saved them from rape. That's about it.

[cheddar cheese]

they do the same in the bond film "view to a kill", which is sooooo the best bond film....................

apart from the man with the golden gun and the spy who loved me

[Lightning Guy]

Well that post said a lot of suicides resulted. And the Russians were big on prisoners rights so alot of them might have been saved.

[plan_D]

Russians big on prisoners rights?

[Gemhorse]

If you've read the History of the German Assault on Russia, the SS Einsatzgruppen did terrible despicable things to Soviet citizens and soldiers alike...Berlin was 'pay-back' time. - Ahanswurst is correct that there wasn't a need to A-bomd Germany, obviously the B-29/Lancaster delivery-aircraft factor is really an opinion thing...I believe the Lancaster COULD'VE done it , the B-29 went and did it, in Japan, but wasn't anywhere near ready to do it to Germany, at the time ...

[Lightning Guy]

Supposed to have been weren't - a typo, I think everyone knows that.

[plan_D]

Yes, I thought it was a bit weird someone coming out with that. Weird or stupid.

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it would have been a lanc, the B-29 wasn't ready at the time.....................

[cheddar cheese]

lies, all lies