When was one of Your cities bombed?

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Re: When was one of Your cities bombed?

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Re: When was one of Your cities bombed?

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Dr. Shades wrote:
ludwigm wrote:Any tip from US? Canada? Australia?

The U.S.A., May 5, 1945.

Wasn't there some sort of documentary by Steven Spielberg starring Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, John Candy and Treat Williams that covered this attempted bombing and was erroneously named 1941.


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Dr. Shades wrote:
ludwigm wrote:Any tip from US? Canada? Australia?

The U.S.A., May 5, 1945.


One of the bombs hit a power line and temporarily blacked out the nuclear facility at Hanford, Washington, which manufactured plutonium for the Manhattan Project.
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Maksutov wrote:http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/nucleartestingandthedownwinders.html

Part of the state of Utah was downwind of open air nuclear testing for years. So we were bombed by our own country. It isn't the horror of cluster bombs or white phosphorus. Was it a price to pay for national security? :neutral:

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Re: When was one of Your cities bombed?

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Doctor Steuss wrote:...
The more I learn about genetics, the more I wish I didn't know anything about genetics.

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Re: When was one of Your cities bombed?

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MeDotOrg wrote:...
One of the bombs hit a power line and temporarily blacked out the nuclear facility at Hanford, Washington, which manufactured plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

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