is this real?

WW3 be like….

@Ereiam  
ah, that makes sense.

@driver240b  
True. I was actually alluding to V-J Day, when the surrender was officially signed (on September 2, 1945, 18 days after the Emperor announced it on radio).

@Ereiam  
Actually, Japan surrendered a couple days after the Nagasaki bombing.

@PaintThe88  
The BUFF is waaayyy better than the Superfortress, though, even in comparison to the contemporary competition of both; those Duplex-Cyclone engines were buggy sonsabitches with a tendency to spontaneously burst into flames and melt the friggin wing off, and only really became practical and reliable post-War. The B-29 was a sweet ride when it worked, but we lost a lot of them before we captured Iwo Jima because they would just up an’ decide to stop working with five hundred miles of Pacific in every direction.

@Nukechaser  
ohoho, but them B-52’s are old and still kicking ass. they’re like swept-wing eight-engine larger payload B-29’s kicking ass from ’nam to the gulf to Afghanistan.

ok…this has gone long enough…can you take it to personal messages?

@paluzna  
He had agreed in Yalta to declare war on Japan three months after the German defeat, but stalled the negociations on a renewal of the Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact for as long as he could. The timing of the atomic bombings was mostly convenient for him, as it allowed the Red Army to steamroll the ill-prepared and disorganized Japanese forces all the way through Manchuria and well into Korea in the space of one month.  
This opportunistic declaration of war also allowed the Soviets to claim Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands before the armistice was signed.

@TexasUberAlles  
Well, my admiration for the B-36 is mostly based on sheer size, and something about the six pusher engine swept wing design is ugly but kind of intimidating at the same time. In the end I would have much rather had awesome flying wings, just seeing a B-49 would have scared anyone shitless.
 
I think I remember reading something a while back about how the B-49 was canceled, seemed highly suspicious and bureaucracy-based. At the very least, Jack Northrop got to see the B-2 get developed…

@Ereiam  
danm, stalin wasnt fucking around…

@paluzna  
Both cities were difficult enough bombing targets that they hadn’t been damaged very heavily by conventional and incendiary raids, which meant that the effects of the atomic bombs could be more accurately studied in the aftermath. Most of the more strategically valuable target cities had already been largely flattened, but Hiroshima was considered a poor target for incendiary attack because of its many rivers, and Nagasaki’s geography made it difficult to bomb by radar navigation at night. Kyoto was originally at the top of the target list for the second bomb, but the U.S. Secretary of War had it removed for sentimental/historical reasons and Nagasaki was substituted.
 
@Nukechaser  
Fsck the goddamn B-36 forever, it was a short-legged underpowered cow; the corpse of fscking Stuart Symington can fly it straight to fscking hell and stay there. The B-35 and B-49 were superior aircraft by every metric, and would have kicked the B-36’s ass in actual service if Symington’s industrial sabotage hadn’t soured the USAF on their development programs.

@paluzna  
@Battle GT  
That and the fact that those two cities were relatively spared by the heavy bombings (which incidentally had caused much more death and destruction than both A-bombs combined).
 
The initial target for the second bombing was the town of Kokura, but because of the cloudy weather, “Fat Man” had to be dropped on its backup objective of Nagasaki.
 
Those two bombs made up all of the nuclear weaponry the US had at the time. There was a third bomb in the making which was scheduled to be dropped on Sapporo by the end of August if the Japanese government still refused to yield. Luckily it hadn’t come down to this and Emperor Hirohito’s capitulation announcement was broadcasted on August 14 (though not before some militarists attempted a coup to coerce the Emperor to carry on with the war). Incidentally, it is believed that the Japanese surrender happened less because of the instant destruction caused by those two bombings and more because of the Soviet entry into the war (after the bombing of Hiroshima, Stalin broke up his talks with Japan and launched an attack in Manchuria on the same day Nagasaki was destroyed).

@paluzna  
If I do recall correctly it had to do with key industrial areas in both those cities

@Ereiam Shouldn’t the pony be Rainbow Dash then?

I gotta admit, that’s some really good photoshopping.

@Ereiam  
@TexasUberAlles  
danm.
 
one last thing, why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki the ones bombed? were they mining towns/cities?

You know what I’d like to fly around in? A B-36, which was like a B-29 but even more obscenely huge, seriously those planes were awesome. Although they never actually got to bomb or shoot anything.

@paluzna  
They were nuked because the alternative was an amphibious invasion that would have cost literally millions of lives, utterly destroyed Japan as both a nation and a people, and left the U.S. at a significant strategic disadvantage in the coming Cold War.
 
is it famous or something?  
There’s only one B-29 in the world that’s still in flyable condition; every one of them that still exists even as a pile of parts is an invaluable historical artifact.

@paluzna  
Because they feared the US would interfere when they’d invade the British colonies in Southeastern Asia. The Pacific Fleet had been moved from San Diego to Hawaii fora dissuasive purposes so the Japanese made their pre-emptive strike there on December 7, 1941 and thus “awoke the sleeping giant”, to quote Admiral Yamamoto.
 
44 months later, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were annihilated by nuclear fire. The next month, Japan surrendered.

@Ereiam  
oh, shit.
 
by the by, hiroshima was nuked because of pearl harbor right?  
and why did the japanese atacked pearl harbor?

@paluzna  
It’s a B-29 Superfortress, the bomber that was used to nuke Japan in World War II.

@paluzna  
considering there aren’t many around

Some awesome shit right there

@bucky  
whats up whit the plane, is it famous or something?