I celebrated Hiroshima Day yesterday by going to the White Sox-Tigers game with Anthony's little league. The White Sox showed their disapproval of nuclear weapons by beating the Tigers 5-1.
When I got back, the various liberal peacenik email lists I belong to celebrated it by sending me depressing emails. However, True Majority at least sent a fun video:
I think I'll continue to celebrate it this year with a letter to my congressperson, plus an entire pint of Chubby Hubby.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Hiroshima Day
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Because I cannot control politics, and therefore feel powerless to do anthing about nukes, I'll focus on that which I can control, so...let's do the math.
Given:
1 bb's=15 ~20KT weapons.
6 bb's=enough to destroy All of Russia.
Wait a moment. Lets check that. 6 bb's = 6 x 15 bombs = 90 bombs of ~20 kt each.
That's enough to destroy Russia? I don't think so. Russia is a HUGE country. And it would take (conservatively) 10 to 15 bombs (or ~2-3 bb's) to destroy Moscow alone.
Six bb's for all of Russia is a gross misrepresentation of the truth to make his point sound bigger, more important and more profound.
Can't say that I really blame him for being a little fibbish though, because nuclear war, no matter how you do the math, still sucks the Strangelove.
Maybe he's talking about fallout rather than actual physical destruction. The phsycial destruction of Hirosima was something like 3 miles, but the fallout was much larger.
Still, the ad would have been just as effective if he had dropped a hundred BBs for Russia, and 10,000 for our arsenal.
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