Nuklear bomb

[Madfish]

Originally Posted by Xilon_x

in the SECOND Bomb launch the Fat Man original target is TOKYO but after chanche for tecnical problem and water problem yes bomb drop to NAGASAKI.

That would've been even worse! The original target was Kokura and it had much more military industry than Nagasaki. Tokyo would've been pure mass murdering or rather slaughter of civillians.

Kokura, at the time of the planned attack, was under a thick layer of clouds. Three attempts were made and then aborted. Sweeney had the order to drop the bomb on industrial targets only, originally. However, since the gas ran out they flew to Nagasaki and dropped it there. Nagasaki was an important harbor... guess where they dropped the bomb though...

before
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...fects-p10a.jpg
after
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...fects-p10b.jpg

As you can see for yourself... these bombs do not hit accurately... in fact they didn't hit the targets at all. They just evaporate everything in the area and obviously that means that the harbor itself was pointless and "destroyed". It's still something that by todays means is a war crime like anything else.



To the people that defend these weapons so strongly:
I want to raise the question: are you just overly pro-allies or what are your intentions?
Because if it's just about simulating each aspect of the war... would you also demand we re-create games where jews, German political targets and/or disabled Germans will be put into concentration camps and murdered brutally by the player? These captured people didn't have a chance to fight back either. Atomic bombs, concentration camps and some, if not many, bombing runs were pure murder and slaughter of innocents.

I think there should be limits to what we gamers should do or not do. I'm not sure what you hope to gain by dropping weapons such as this but I fear that your intentions might be... questionable at best.

There is a difference between a fight amongst armies and slaughter of civillians by an army. That goes for all sides, axis and allies. But then again, allowing players to kill mindlessly... I really wonder if that is what the developers intend to do and I'm almost certain that it is not their plan.