Hiroshima/Nagasaki vs conventional B-17 bombing

Mike Willey wrote:

To put this in perspective, think of the bombs as hailstones. If I
have a hailstorm for 30 minutes with pea sized hail over, say a 2 acre
area and that hail had the equivalent water to 1/8 inch of rain, it
would cause a great deal of damage. But imagine the damage if there
were just one hailstone that weight 7000 lbs dropping from the sky.
Not nearly as much damage in most of the area, but where it hit, wow!


That's not a good reason either because why does it matter how
much damage is caused PAST the point where everything is
destroyed?...everything past that point is useless overkill...
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-Gord.

"zxcv" wrote in message ...
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were about 10 kilotons and a B-17 had
a normal bomb load of about 3 tons and I have heard of a formation of 1300
B-17's on a bomb run that would equal around 4 kilotons (3 x 1300 = 3900)
would the devastation be the same as a small A-bomb? or is there some
lessening effect because of the spread of much smaller bombs?

The residual radiation is a great deal less. So is the psychological
effect.

Most Americans would be better of if the Germans had of developed
nuclear exposives first and demonstrated them on either empty US
landscape). It would have saced 500,000 lives in Vietnam and quite a
few mutilations of Americans in Iraq (I note the oxymoron predictions
of a dessert quaqmire are looking realistic) while the japanese would
have kept the Red Chinese in check in Korea in the 1050s.

On 1 Apr 2004 06:21:13 -0800, (Eunometic) wrote:


Most Americans would be better of if the Germans had of developed
nuclear exposives first and demonstrated them on either empty US
landscape).

KER-PLONK, begone idiotic national socialist gob****e.


greg

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Cast in the name of God. Ye not guilty.

Greg Hennessy wrote in message . ..
On 1 Apr 2004 06:21:13 -0800, (Eunometic) wrote:


Most Americans would be better of if the Germans had of developed
nuclear exposives first and demonstrated them on empty US landscape.

KER-PLONK, begone idiotic national socialist gob****e.


greg


I'm always pleased when irritants like you self censore themselves.

I stand by my assertion. The US people lost by firstly getting
involved in the war and finally by ensuring the defeat of Germany and
thereby the spread of communism. Apart from the vast resources she
devoted to containing communism the USA developed an ideology to match
the internationalism of communism that is leading to the disolution
of the descendents of the people that fought.