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Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times reports on the life of George Koval, codenamed Delmar, one of the most important spies to have infiltrated the Manhattan Project, the secret program that created the world's first nuclear weapon. President Putin recently granted Koval a posthumous Hero of the Russian Federation award, the highest honorary title that can be given to a Russian citizen. Koval was born in Iowa, spoke fluent American English, and played baseball. But he was also recruited and trained by the GRU, Russia's largest intelligence agency."
1) yes, war sucks 2) the japs started it, and did FAR worse 3) dont be such a hippy pussy
The Japanese were only ready to give up their arms, not surrender. IIRC they were asking for terms that would have allowed them to retain some level of dignity prior to the first bomb dropping.
Then again, there are some new reading materials that challenge my understanding of the situation... http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HASRAC.html
Who knows what to believe.
Anyone who has a problem with the above link can go research this at the Library of Congress. There is even more info to be found there.
Japan was defeated. Stop all the revisionist bullshit. The bombs were dropped on motherfucking civilians. Your own president was writing in his journal about the injustice of dropping the bomb on civilians.
This makes me sick. How can people even doubt what happened in Hiroshima? In Nagasaki? It was true horror. This is so fucking dumb!@ I can't believe what people are writing to me because of this subject on my e-mail.
What's the news for nerds angle here?
This is a "progressive" site. This means that showcasing the haters of America (namely, China and the USSR/Russia) and their accomplishments is red meat. Call me "jingoistic" all you want, but there is no doubt that feeling some degree of negative feeling, from simple skepticism to full-blown hatred, toward America and/or capitalism is a very "progressive" thing to do.
And that's why you'll see articles like this posted on this site. Articles which extol the glory of China or the USSR are what "progressives" like to read, and there are lots of "progressives" here. Yes, it's not necessarily "news for nerds". It's red meat, and that's never a bad thing for keeping your site active and popular.
The responses to this post will probably attempt to appease chronic Bush Derangement Syndrome. I'm going to get called a "Bush lover" and they'll bring up the war in Iraq and all that. Or I'll just get modded a "troll" for answering your question in the entirely accurate and truthful way.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.
Should arabs hold you responsible for Bush's bullshit?
Seriously/
Should you be held to task for the civilian deaths in Iraq?
Peaceful Japanese were burned by nuclear fire for no reason at all. How about if this was your family?
I appreciate the opportunities I have in America... But sometimes this is too much. Seriously.
I am going to need to stop posting. This touched a too sensitive nerve.
The Soviet battle plan was for a conventional invasion for permanent conquest so of course they would not precede that with a nuclear strike. The NATO battle plan was designed around a defense in depth. Acknowledging that would require you to be something other than a troll.
"The rulers of the west had one thing in common with Hitler, they both despised the idea of Socialism in the form adopted by Russia."
The rulers of the west had one thing in common with Stalin, they both despised the idea of Socialism in the form adopted by Germany.
Communist apologists are morally equivalent to Nazi apologists as the two ideologies in practice are genocidal, despotic and enslaving.