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1. just need a background check, then gtg.

Tue Aug 6, 2013, 06:27 PM

Aug 2013

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Reading today's posts, it appears we've lost our fear of The Bomb.... [View all] Junkdrawer Aug 2013 OP

just need a background check, then gtg. PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #1

It wasn't even the biggest weapon of war in WWII (napalm was) Recursion Aug 2013 #2

Aren't the nukes we have today much more powerful? quinnox Aug 2013 #6

Right, that's what I said Recursion Aug 2013 #11

More people died... iandhr Aug 2013 #3

Not me Isoldeblue Aug 2013 #4

I don't get that at all dbackjon Aug 2013 #5

Speaking for myself Dreamer Tatum Aug 2013 #7

And most of us have watched Dr. Strangelove. iandhr Aug 2013 #8

No, we are talking about the end of WWII... Deep13 Aug 2013 #9

No, as a child during the time after the war, RebelOne Aug 2013 #10

Already been bombed. Didn't feel a thing for thirty years. Downwinder Aug 2013 #13

1945 was not 1962. roamer65 Aug 2013 #12

I admire your ability to strip all context from the discussion. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #16

Brutality, military insanity, and bland acceptance of monsterous... 99Forever Aug 2013 #17

Yes. LWolf Aug 2013 #18

"You mean there was a time when White People were bombed, too." Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #21

Compared to the bomb of even just ten years later, it was NuclearDem Aug 2013 #19