• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So these hypothetical guys fighting in the korean war, which took place in the 1950s, haven’t heard of nuclear weapons, when two were used in 1945? I think you actually did hit your head pretty hard.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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      They were known as atomic weapons and the ⚛️ orbital electrons model was the commonly understood paradigm for atomic structure.

    • raubarno@lemmy.ml
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      There were nuclear weapons but no intercontinental ballistic rockets that could carry them. Fat Man and Little Boy were dropped from airplanes.