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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: (use of atomic bomb)
Message-ID: <1259@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 22:07:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 22:07:56 1985
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In article <1733@mnetor.UUCP> fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) writes:

>>    I think it might have been worth while to try a demonstration on
>>an uninhabited area first. Sure, the chances may have been small of
>>getting a surrender on that basis, but the other option would have
>>still been open. 

Marshall did suggest this, and indeed stated it as a moral imperative.
Apparently Oppenheimer and others torpedoed this, for reasons that are
now obscure.

In article <344@persci.UUCP> bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan) writes:

>Remember, we didn't have the resources to build unlimited numbers. ..And
>we DID fly over Nagasaki before it was bombed, dropping leaflets to warn
>the populace. I don't remember if we did the same for Hiroshima, but we
>did risk a lot of American aviators' lives dropping warnings over enemy
>territory, instead of bombs.

I'm sorry, but dropping leaflets can only be viewed as either an attempt
to assuage the consciences of those responsible, or (at best) wishful
thinking.  It's hard to imagine a civilian taking them as anything but
propaganda.

Charley Wingate