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PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN authorized the first nuclear attack in the history of the world, on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. Around 70,000 people, nearly all of them civilians, were vaporized, crushed, burned, or irradiated to death almost immediately. Another 50,000 probably died soon after. The bomb exploded with the force of more than 15,000 tons of TNT.

But the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its supporting strike group launched the “largest airstrike in the history of the world” from an aircraft carrier on Somalia in February, said Adm. James Kilby, the Navy’s acting chief of naval operations, while speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadership on Monday.

The strike involved 16 F/A-18 Super Hornets that launched from the Truman as the carrier strike group operated in the Red Sea, a Navy official told The Intercept on condition of anonymity. When it was over, Somalia had been pummeled by around 125,000 pounds of munitions, according to Kilby. Those 60 tons of bombs killed just 14 people, according to Africa Command, or AFRICOM.

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[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

14 people. Were any of them even the target I wonder.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s highly likely that people weren’t the target at all; they likely obliterated the infrastructure.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Somolian Air Force is probably feeling it so hard right now.

Oh wait I'm now being told that Somolia hasn't had much of a functioning government for the past 30 years so what the fuck are we even attacking them for?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Imagine if Somalia became a functional state again. It could use its location like the Houthis in Yemen to decide who can pass through the Red Sea and by extension Suez channel.

Can't have countries leverage their location like that. Look what became out of Singapore. Just bomb them all for eternity...

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