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From: mdn@foxvax1.UUCP (M.X. Dos Neves )
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: History Corrected - WWII (Amir read this)
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Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 08:41:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  2 08:41:28 1984
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References: <479@tty3b.UUCP> <1731@sdcc6.UUCP>, <5971@mcvax.UUCP>, <1380@qubix.UUCP> <246@digi-g.UUCP> <1171@druRe: History Corrected - WWIITue, 2-Oct-84 08:41:28 EDT
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...true that anything to do with nuclear war is rather distasteful,

but I beg to correct you on one little point.  When the A-bomb was

dropped on Hiroshima, the US demanded the unconditional surrender

of the Japanese government to which they refused. I believe there

was a difference of several days between Hiroshima and Nagasaki;

which gave Tojo enough time to abdicate.


You have to be realistic, the way the Kamikazes sacrificed themselves,

that an invasion of the Japanese mainland would have been much more

costly to the US and even more so to Japan. The war would have

probably lasted another two years.


...and if there was any redeeming lessons from the tragedies of

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we learned that nuclear war is something

to be avoided at all costs. Admittedly a lesson which today's leaders

are not well versed in......


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