Paul Tibbets died (a bit old news, but)

The man who pulled the trigger to drop the bomb on Hiroshima died on November 1. Suprising that he lived all that time. At his online museum one can buy a model of Little Boy ($600) and US stamps celebrating the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (they were printed in 1995 but Clinton ordered not to issue them to public).

I've been always fascinated by the atomic bombing of Japan, maybe because of the deeply hidden fear born in me in the twilight of the Cold War. Gas-masks at home and school films depicting the out-of-date safety rules in case of a nuclear strike.

I'm also surprised that he lived that long. But I'm shocked and offended that there would be stamps celebrating the atomic bombings. Do you mean, "commemorating" or "memorializing"?

Postage stamps comemorating Operation Olympic would be more grotesque.

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I'm also surprised that he lived that long. But I'm shocked and offended that there would be stamps celebrating the atomic bombings. Do you mean, "commemorating" or "memorializing"?

"commemorating" would be correct.

And da bomb scalemodel:

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I've been always fascinated by the atomic bombing of Japan, maybe because of the deeply hidden fear born in me in the twilight of the Cold War. Gas-masks at home and school films depicting the out-of-date safety rules in case of a nuclear strike.

I remember my school had us do the same drill for a nuclear strike as for an earthquake: curl up into a little ball under desk with yer hands clasping around yer head... as a third grader I started wonderring how a desk was gonna save us from the heat, radiation and initial blast

EdelBrock wrote:

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I've been always fascinated by the atomic bombing of Japan, maybe because of the deeply hidden fear born in me in the twilight of the Cold War. Gas-masks at home and school films depicting the out-of-date safety rules in case of a nuclear strike.

I remember my school had us do the same drill for a nuclear strike as for an earthquake: curl up into a little ball under desk with yer hands clasping around yer head... as a third grader I started wonderring how a desk was gonna save us from the heat, radiation and initial blast

Yeah, especially when in the film they show you that monster ball and buildings turning into dust in the 10-km radius.

Unless you're one minute away from the nearest underground station, where they do have a grandiose bomb shelter 100 m undernearth the surface.