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From: emil@rochester.UUCP (Emil Rainero)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: America-bashing (use of atomic bomb)
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:48:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 10:48:22 1985
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Reply-To: emil@rochester.UUCP (Emil Rainero)
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>    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. 
>    The atom bomb was a whole new way to wage war. It would have been
>better to show the Japanese what they would be up against. Then, if
>they still wanted to continue, OK, what could you do? 
>    It is true that the numbers of people killed were probably fewer
>than if the war had dragged on, but it is possible that even these
>people need not have been killed.
>
>    Now do people think that without the examples of that war, would
>we have had nuclear war after WW2?
>
>Cheers,		Fred Williams

I think there was a problem producing material for more than two
bombs.  I heard somewhere about it taking another year to get enough the
make additional bombs.  This info was a bit encrusted in the space between
my ears, so I may be way off.



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