Originally posted by Angus
2. Show the full force and horror of this weapon, which put some weight on why it has never been used again.
the bad one:
- well, it surely killed a lot of civilians in a most horrible way.
There was a short film made years ago that was aired in the sci-fi channel that had 'alternative history' scenarios.
One of those was the allies winning WW2 without using nuclear weapons. The story was that the war ended in 1947 after a brutal invasion of the Japanese mainland by the US and Russian forces and Japan got split up into north and south control zones just like Germany was split.
The cold war went a different way though. When north korea attacked the south and the UN forces pushed North korea north of the 38th parallel, Macarthur WAS given permission to use the A-bomb when the Chinese forces joined the fight on the side of the north. (macarthur wanted to create a 'radiation' wall at the chinese-korean border)
The result of that was China losing 1/3rd of its territory to the UN forces (UN forces were at war with China) and the USSR quietly remained neutral while trying to build its own a-bombs.
Years later, the cuban missile crisis went badly and US / USSR exchanged nuclear attacks and the world entered a nuclear winter. The story itself was told by a teacher giving a history lesson to kids in an underground shelter 20 years after the nuclear winter.
a very interesting short film. It kinda shows how the use of the nukes to end WW2 gave the world advanced notice of the horror of nuclear weapons at a time BEFORE the two superpowers had stockpiles of them (and of significantly higher destructive power than WW2 era nukes). It is said the USSR backed away from the cuban missile crisis because their leaders knew too well the effects the nukes had on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
