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From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Hiroshima, Beiruit, Atomic Bombs and Politics
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 16:22:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 16:22:31 1985
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> *** A bomb is not a military weapon.  Rather, it is a political weapon. ***
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By this I assume you mean an A-bomb. I think the A-bomb is presently,
and will henceforth be, a political weapon, but I'm not sure I agree
that it was in 1945. I tend to agree with the neo-fascists that the US
bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end the war as soon as 
possible, although it was probably used to scare the Russians as well.
I believe the argument that the bombs took less lives than the
continuation of the war without nukes. However, I feel it would
have been every bit as impressive to detonate a nuke offshore, but
clearly within eyeshot of millions of Japanese. Many can argue that 
Japan would be undeterred unless faced with horrendous civilian
casualties, but a nuclear fireworks exhibition would not have
ruled out more drastic uses of nukes.

Now that most citizens of the world are aware (dimly) of
the destructive power of nuclear weapons, we can dismantle
them, right guys? Guys, I said, "right!" Are you with me guys?

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