Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsg!mzp From: mzp@uicsg.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Hiroshima: The Decision - (nf) Message-ID: <6311@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 23:17:53 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6311 Posted: Wed Mar 21 23:17:53 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 08:38:03 EST Lines: 27 #R:uok:6600030:uicsg:17600015:000:1428 uicsg!mzp Mar 17 22:12:00 1984 [(wocka wocka wocka) < . . . . o .] You were going fine there for a while, but then you seem to have become confused. First of all, Trinity (Alamagordo) was a plutonium bomb, while Hiroshima was U235 and Nagasaki was another plutonium. Therefore Hiroshima was the unknown quantity. This subject, for some strange sadistic reason, has been of some interest to me, and I have done a bit of research in the area. Most of this leads me to the conclusion that Truman was a dink. Of course everybody knows that already. What about the August 7, 1945 papers that read 'Japan stunned by atom ruin.' Sure the Japs knew what they had been hit with- something which they could never hope to deal with. Also, they had no idea that we only had one more bomb. Three days is not a very long time to allow a country to contemplate surrender, particular Japan at that juncture. There was incredible pressure, even considering the possible outcome, for a continued fight. Yet the emperor managed to convince the military that the battle was lost. There was no need for the second bomb. It was a useless act committed by a useless president. And frankly, I could never buy that Nagasaki was nuked to prevent the Russians from becoming involved, since if Truman had been that intent on keeping the Russians out, he would not have given them Berlin. Direct flames to /dev/null Mark Papamarcos ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsg!mzp