Apr 15, 2015 – Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle A “Fat Man” bomb was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug 9, 1945, near the end of World War II Released by the B-29 Bockscar, the 10,000-pound weapon was detonated at an altitude of approximately 1,800 feet over the city
View 486 October 1 - 7, 2007 That also used up much of the day, and the Clarence Thomas interview on Sixty Minutes took up more, so I didn't get the mailbag done in time for posting at Chaos Manor Reviews It will be up shortly http: www amazon com E-bomb-Americas-Directed-Energy-Weapons dp 0306815060 jerrypournellcha ===========
No lost bomb found. – Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle Allegedly the Air Force insisted that the bomb was empty – no warhead, certainly no nuclear warhead While I did not accept that as 100% certain to be true, it was part of the justification given for why the search was eventually stopped
An odd coincidence? – Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle View 770 Saturday, April 20, 2013 The bomb went off near the Boston Marathon finish line Across the street from one of the bombs is Lords and Taylor, a department store The mother of the bombers is now reported to have been arrested for shoplifting at Lords and Taylors some months ago
View 249 March 17 - 23, 2003 We will accept surrender of Iraqi military forces and civilians until the first time someone surrendering abuses our graciousness by setting off a suicide bomb or otherwise harming US troops
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle – Page 149 – the original blog of Jerry . . . We chose to bomb Christian Slavs, thus making enemies of pro-Slavic Russia We sowed the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind; and now we are supposed to ‘rescue’ Crimea from Russia? It was crazy to intervene in the Balkans It is stark raving madness to contemplate intervention in the Crimea Perhaps we can send The Light Brigade?
View – Page 254 – Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle It all looks good Now we need to think about the implications As Descartes said (and Carl Sagan often repeated) extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence FTL anything pretty well makes hash out of a lot of relativity theory, so it’s an extraordinary claim; now the evidence is slowly accumulating As Mr Ruthroff says, Hope Remain!
Airpower, Temperature, Dragon, NATO, and much other Mail Strategic bombing invited the Luftwaffe to destruction; the Wehrmacht needed to be defeated by armies Air superiority is useful and important, but that does not equally winning Naval gunfire for days and air strikes did not win Iwo Jima It took boots on the ground and many casualties
Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle – Page 122 – the original blog of Jerry . . . Is it that we are simply addicted to breaking things and killing people? We seem determined to bomb someone in the Middle East We seem to believe we cannot simply walk away, seal our borders, and get on with building the City on the Hill as an example to all mankind