# "The smell of Napalm in the morning" is for wusses. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776 "2012-07-19T21:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776/1 "2012-07-19T21:18:48Z")
Here is what REAL men do for fun and country (stand under a detonating atomic bomb). [http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2012/07/19/12834002-55-years-ago-6-stood-under-atomic-bomb-blast-on-purpose?lite](http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12834002-55-years-ago-6-stood-under-atomic-bomb-blast-on-purpose?lite) Gawd I miss the good ole days sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776/2 "2012-07-20T20:08:52Z")
Are they sure there wasn’t a Dr. Bruce Banner there as well? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776/3 "2012-07-21T01:20:43Z")
LOL, mrAru’s uncle was one of the guys involved - standing in a trench, put the protective glasses on, turn around and cover your eyes … :eek: Got to love our government and human guineapiggery. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776/4 "2012-07-21T05:29:15Z")
Living in the first state that got nuked, I went out with the Audubon Society so we could view horned larks. I saw a sign that read "Trinity Site, " and wondered if the larks had had horns before July 16 1945. There was also that incident in May 1955 in Albuquerque where someone dropped a hydrogen bomb on us but being the clueless idiots we are we just thought it was a drive by. Yeah, okay, only the conventional weapons from the H Bomb went off and killed a cow. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776/5 "2012-07-21T05:58:19Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Here is what REAL men do for fun and country (stand under a detonating atomic bomb). > > [http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/\_news/2012/07/19/12834002-55-years-ago-6-stood-under-atomic-bomb-blast-on-purpose?lite](http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/19/12834002-55-years-ago-6-stood-under-atomic-bomb-blast-on-purpose?lite) > > Gawd I miss the good ole days sometimes. Yeah, the old days. When we built atomic weapons just to shoot down one plane. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776/6 "2012-07-21T15:04:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yeah, the old days. When we built atomic weapons just to shoot down one plane. When the one plane might have been a Soviet bomber carrying a couple of multi-megaton bombs, a two-kiloton airburst would have been a bargain in comparison. ICBMs of course made it a moot point, but iirc the US still has air-to-air nukes in it’s arsenal. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning-is-for-wusses/628776/7 "2012-07-22T18:35:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yeah, the old days. When we built atomic weapons just to shoot down one plane. Are nuclear depth charges still considered a useful weapon?