Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site foxvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!mdn From: mdn@foxvax1.UUCP (M.X. Dos Neves ) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: History Corrected - WWII (Amir read this) Message-ID: <468@foxvax1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 08:41:28 EDT Article-I.D.: foxvax1.468 Posted: Tue Oct 2 08:41:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:44:02 EDT 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 Organization: The Foxboro Co., Foxboro, Mass Lines: 32 ...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...... mdn@foxvax1