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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Was dropping the bomb on Nagasaki a violation of direct orders? Physicist Adam Brown read every crew member's account of the bombing. They all claimed they followed orders. But their stories don't agree. At very least, "it's clear there was something highly sus."
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Dwarkesh Patel
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Way more in the full episode with Adam:
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Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
New episode w Adam Brown, a lead of Blueshift at DeepMind & theoretical physicist at Stanford. Stupefying, terrifying, & absolutely fascinating. On destroying the light cone with vacuum decay, mining black holes, holographic principle, & path to LLMs which make Einsteinian
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Dave
@Dave209090
Oh stfu. Japan was the country of war criminals. They bombed the US, invaded Manchuria and raped and murdered women, they treated everyone the attacked and conquered like cattle. The US would have suffered half a million to a millioned to invade and subdue. Just read a book
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Carlos Rivas MD
@CarlosRivasMD
Th nuclear bombs dropped on Japan were war crimes and anyone who says otherwise has no soul. All the excuses they made for it were merely that: wicked excuses to cover their grave evil. Anyone who thinks that the USA was the hero of WWII has no brain and no heart and condones
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Dale Evans (pseudonym)
@DaleEvans22611
Biggest screwup was the decree that drop be only visual. That prevented use on its primary target, the huge Kokura Arsenal making exactly the sort of weapons that would have killed U.S. troops in an invasion if Japan had still refused surrender. Probably a good radar target. 1/
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Dale Evans (pseudonym)
@DaleEvans22611
IIRC, the Bombardier claimed that on the final pass he saw a racetrack through the cloud hole. In fact the bomb detonated nearly over the racetrack. If he had truly been dropping blindly, how would he have known that? Would a racetrack have shown up clearly on radar of that era?
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tbone
@tbonecapital
Is it possible that the US knew that both cities had cloud cover on that day and that this was just a signal to the Japanese that they were willing to bomb another city but cloud cover obstructed them? Why would General LeMay be so angry otherwise?
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Vlad Ciobanu
@vlad3ciobanu
Seeing Western intellectuals smiling while talking about events in which hundreds of thousands of people died is just.. disappointing and sad. It happens often.
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Xonious
@135dandan
Nagasaki was Japans only Christian city at the time, it was as much an attack on Christians as on Japan.
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Adam
@SitDownDisco
What an odd way to frame it. “50% of all weapons were used in violation of orders!” Why force that framing? I don’t get it.
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Alec
@AlecinSparks
What’s this “we” shit? The USA dropped the atomic bombs, not “we”. You had zero to do with it.
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John Devlin
@Devlinside123
Imagine you’ve enraged your enemy by pretending to negotiate while you launch a sneak attack that kills 3,000 of your foe…. …then you wage a war where you never surrender, fighting tooth and nail over tiny spits of islands…now you’re encircled, your suicide attacks flail
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Takigawa Institute
@takigawa_inst
Why are you talking about the past when there’s an active holocaust happening in Gaza which 10x as much explosives have been used and 10x the depravity of crimes
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Name cannot be blank
@Gn_O_S
Modern academics questioning the hard decisions made by better men in the past. What were your ancestors doing during WWII Mr Dwarkish Patel?
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