pearl harbor movie =pfffffffft!
tora, tora, tora = :thumbsup:
there is huge debate on both sides about how much was known and not communicated, such as the 14 point document sent to the embasy and how it was taken. pearl harbor movie does get alot historically acurate (such the cook that fought back and was honored was real), but alot was also done with the love story. tora is much better though. (tora, tora, tora, or tiger, tiger, tiger in japanese was the code phrase to begin the attack).
random stuff:
hiroshima was chosen because the weather was better over that city than the other days target.
the pilots found out about the size of the bomb and what the destruction would be just hours before takeoff. They had to remove lots of equipment from the plain to make it lighter so that they could hold enough fuel for the entire flight.
one of the crew had to arm the bomb while in flight, one wrong move would have detonated it on the plain. all this on a bomber that is shaking violently.
the first step in making the bomb was to create a controlled fission reaction out of an atomic pile. This was done at university of chicago. 2 grad students had to stand on top of it ready to enclose the system incase the reactor could not be controlled, they were called the sucide squad. another assistant had a long pole which acted as a rod in the chamber. They held one end of it and had to push/pull it into the box in hopes that this slowed/ sped up the process. They were sucessfull and celebrated with red wine, because it slows the actions of radation poisoning in the body.
USS Indianapolis, which brought the bomb went down in shark infested waters on the return after being hit by a torpedo and most of the men died not from the sinking, but from being in shark infested waters too long. why? because due to the top secret nature of the mission, they were never reported to have gone out of or into either port, and were not missed for never comming back. excellent movie = mission of the shark
When the bomb was created, they didnt know its capasity. 2 of the leading theories on what would happen:
1. the blast will crack the surface of the earth and shatter the planet into so many pieces that it will blow itself apart.
2. the blast will be so large that it will blow the atmosphere (air) off of the planet into space, creating a vaccum on the surface just like the moon or any other celestial body with no atmosphere, resulting in instant death of all creatures on the planet that relied on oxygen to survive.
these were presented by the scientist who developed the bomb and they were promptly dismissed so that the testing could go on. they then protested again that a bomb should not be dropped on civilians, but into the ocean just west of japan followed quickly by a threat to end the war or we will drop the next one on civillians.
This also was dismissed because the president wanted to have all the bombs he could at his disposal, as he threatened that we had a whole arsenal of them.
the same 2 threats about distroying the earth were again raised when the h-bomb was developed, but were again dismissed.
in vegas, they used to announce the times of the bomb tests so that tourists could go up into the mountains and picnic while watching the pretty ******** clouds.
while testing (there is still footage of this) the government put OUR OWN SOLDIERS at different distances from the ground zero mark with random amounts of protection. Some were only in their uniforms. All were told to watch the explosion that would happen soon and then they would be interviewed. Most of them died.
in the mid 90\'s we almost destroyed the planet due to miscommunications in russia. A test going on in the netherlands was mis-judged to be an american nuclear missle aimed at russia. the nuclear football (bomb activation briefcase that is always with the president of russia and USA) was opened for the first time. Luckily, they hesitated. If not, they would have retaliated by attacking america, which we would have seen as first strike and attacked them. It is postulated that this type of war would make the entire northern hemipshere unlivable. The \'missle\' was actually a test rocket, which the soviets had been told about but the paperwork was never sent to the missle command because it was deemed not improtant to them.
