>Nuclear weapons must all be destroyed and anyone who advocates for their usage must be hung.
my military sources say modern nuclear weapons, when air burst, are lesser radiation hazard than living downwind from a coal power plants thats operating as intended.. and coal power kills more people daily than nuclear power has killed in total
But nuclear weapons have prevented a great-power war for over 70 years.
That is a heck of a thing, historically speaking. We are actually overdue, based on past cycles.
There once was a Jap in Taipei
Who raped ten Chinese girls a day
He said: “I can’t get much higher,
But my family’s on fire
For my sins they sent Curtis LeMay”
I mean, yes and no. really if you abide or assist evil what difference is there to a person suffering that violence you abide or assist being rendered against them?
We realistically should have went full Lemay and nuked Moscow and Beijing before they could spool up a nuclear weapons program. As soon as the OSI/CIA got wind that Fuch's had leaked out plans to the Russians and we got independent confirmation Sakahrov and Zel'dovich were working on a bomb, we should have blasted them. US literally could have global hegemony if we did. Like "Man in the High Castle" but the US instead of Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, McNamara b***hed out.
And allegedly LeMay got the ultimate honor of having a space ship named after him. To my knowledge, there is no vessel named after either LeMay or, Hillenkoetter for that matter, except interweb speculation. If anyone deserves it, it's our friend in nuclear Armageddon Curtis.
Anyone that is interested in Curtis LeMay should watch "Fog of War", a documentary about Robert McNamara's time as SecDef. 70% of the film is about his interactions with LeMay. It's really well done.
It's been a while since I've seen it (2001), but at least a significant portion was about LeMay. At least the bomber logistics was covered, as far as I remember. Regardless, we should have followed his example and nuked fricking everyone and been done with it. Half the global problems we have no could have been solved with nukes pre-1950.
He still wanted Valkyrie.
Him and his bomber enthusiast clique could not convince the others how a supersonic bomber is any better than an ICBM or a cruise missile.
He was definitely a leader. >One of the commanders was Curtis LeMay—Colonel in command of a B-24 [sic] group. He was the finest combat commander of any service I came across in war. But he was extraordinarily belligerent, many thought brutal. He got the report. He issued an order. He said, 'I will be in the lead plane on every mission. Any plane that takes off will go over the target, or the crew will be court-martialed.' The abort rate dropped overnight. Now that's the kind of commander he was. >t. Robert McNamara
Lemay had teh virtues of his vices. He was brave, a superb combat leader, a hard worker, and he was detail-orientated that got the best out of his crews with maximum efficiency.
He was also completely ruthless. Morality (good or bad), did not enter into his decisions. He was handed military objectives and he did his level best to solve them. The body count was incidental to that.
Told the Soviet Union was a threat to the existence of the United States, he assembled a force capable of threatening them right back. If that INCREASED the amount of tension towards a nuclear conflict, his only concern was winning it.
He had a very low tolerance for people who did not think the way he did.
Nuclear weapons must all be destroyed and anyone who advocates for their usage must be hung.
>anyone who advocates for their usage must be hung.
You're goddamn right they are.
>Nuclear weapons must all be destroyed and anyone who advocates for their usage must be hung.
my military sources say modern nuclear weapons, when air burst, are lesser radiation hazard than living downwind from a coal power plants thats operating as intended.. and coal power kills more people daily than nuclear power has killed in total
>nuclear power
Never said a word about nuclear power. I'm very much for it.
>radiation hazard
That's not my issue with nukes.
why do you hate nukes anon? do you hate peace?
You rang?
>completelyfrick up the defense of the philippines
real fail upwards kind of guy
OP said "did nothing wrong" not "did literally everything wrong"
But nuclear weapons have prevented a great-power war for over 70 years.
That is a heck of a thing, historically speaking. We are actually overdue, based on past cycles.
There once was a Jap in Taipei
Who raped ten Chinese girls a day
He said: “I can’t get much higher,
But my family’s on fire
For my sins they sent Curtis LeMay”
op here, i'm israeli btw
His only sin was not bombing them harder.
The ONLY non-homosexual in the entire US Air Force
?
Picrel would like a word.
Frick.
What about Chuck Yeager? I know he was technically in the Army Air Corps at first, but he certainly wasn't a gay.
But he didn't do everything right
>CLM nuking and incinerating Nippon
🙁
>CLM nuking and incinerating Tel Aviv
🙂
>CLM nuking and incinerating Tel Aviv
didn't happen but it should have
That fictional event, among others, yes
I mean, yes and no. really if you abide or assist evil what difference is there to a person suffering that violence you abide or assist being rendered against them?
He didn't. But you did making this thread, cupcake.
We realistically should have went full Lemay and nuked Moscow and Beijing before they could spool up a nuclear weapons program. As soon as the OSI/CIA got wind that Fuch's had leaked out plans to the Russians and we got independent confirmation Sakahrov and Zel'dovich were working on a bomb, we should have blasted them. US literally could have global hegemony if we did. Like "Man in the High Castle" but the US instead of Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, McNamara b***hed out.
And allegedly LeMay got the ultimate honor of having a space ship named after him. To my knowledge, there is no vessel named after either LeMay or, Hillenkoetter for that matter, except interweb speculation. If anyone deserves it, it's our friend in nuclear Armageddon Curtis.
Anyone that is interested in Curtis LeMay should watch "Fog of War", a documentary about Robert McNamara's time as SecDef. 70% of the film is about his interactions with LeMay. It's really well done.
>70% of the film is about his interactions with LeMay
lmao nah, good documentary (interview, really), though
It's been a while since I've seen it (2001), but at least a significant portion was about LeMay. At least the bomber logistics was covered, as far as I remember. Regardless, we should have followed his example and nuked fricking everyone and been done with it. Half the global problems we have no could have been solved with nukes pre-1950.
he let them kill the Valkyrie
He still wanted Valkyrie.
Him and his bomber enthusiast clique could not convince the others how a supersonic bomber is any better than an ICBM or a cruise missile.
He was definitely a leader.
>One of the commanders was Curtis LeMay—Colonel in command of a B-24 [sic] group. He was the finest combat commander of any service I came across in war. But he was extraordinarily belligerent, many thought brutal. He got the report. He issued an order. He said, 'I will be in the lead plane on every mission. Any plane that takes off will go over the target, or the crew will be court-martialed.' The abort rate dropped overnight. Now that's the kind of commander he was.
>t. Robert McNamara
Curtis LeMay was the fricking man. This is a quote from Fog of Wa
Lemay had teh virtues of his vices. He was brave, a superb combat leader, a hard worker, and he was detail-orientated that got the best out of his crews with maximum efficiency.
He was also completely ruthless. Morality (good or bad), did not enter into his decisions. He was handed military objectives and he did his level best to solve them. The body count was incidental to that.
Told the Soviet Union was a threat to the existence of the United States, he assembled a force capable of threatening them right back. If that INCREASED the amount of tension towards a nuclear conflict, his only concern was winning it.
He had a very low tolerance for people who did not think the way he did.