The Nuking of Japan

[A Theist]

In their desparation, the Luftwaffe did resort to extracting oaths from their pilots to the effect of each of them won't come back alive from a sortie if he didn't down an allied bomber during the sortie. So I don't doubt some pilots resorted to ramming.

But Me-163 was little used during WWII because of its operational limitations. It was a straight up and down point defense interceptor. It wasn't meant to establish air superiority over any area. It was meant to defend just a small point target by going almost straight up, use its speed to evade enemy fighters to go directly for the bombers, and then come straight down. Because Me-163's rocket engines had very short fuel range, it generally used up its fuel during an extremely rapid initial climb and a very fast attack, and it had to glide back unpowered. As a result, it was unstoppable on the way up, and totally helpless before allied fighters on the way down. Also the rocket engine was extremely tempermental, and the residual unburned fuel is liable to explode if the landing was too rough. I believe there were actually no confirmed case where an Me-163 actually downed an allied bomber.

That's absolutely true.....the Me-163 was an impressive looking piece of equipment but it was also severly disadvantaged in the points you mentioned. It did nothing to really stop the oncoming bombers.

[Cinjin]

I think the better question about nuking Japan is:

Why did the christian god take so long securing our victory over the enemy that we had to drop the bomb in the first place???

I mean OBVIOUSLY god was on our side ... well at least in the last 1/3 of the war right? Does god change sides??? He must. I mean clearly the Germans had recruited him in the front half during the Blitzkrieg. That seems obvious, plus I think god felt obligated to help out their cause once he found out that Hitler had put the "God With Us" slogan on all their uniform buttons.

Man, god must've been pretty embarrassed when he found out they were executing his very own hebrews. Maybe that's why he took so long!? He had to switch teams at half-time and then bring us back. What do the Japs believe in?? You'd think after their demoralizing defeat they'd all be subscribing to jesus now.


Just random thoughts. Everybody always claims to have the moral high ground and god's own righteous backing when it comes to the torture and murder of another nation.

(Thank god, we have access to the one TRUE god here in our country ... whew.)

[IATIA]

Does god change sides???

If memory serves, there was at least one instance in the babblebook that it was just so.

[Minimalist]

Why did the christian god take so long securing our victory over the enemy that we had to drop the bomb in the first place???

Obviously to let Hitler kill more jews.