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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: (use of atomic bomb)
Message-ID: <344@persci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:29:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.344
Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:29:11 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:42:40 EDT
References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> <1733@mnetor.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan)
Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA
Lines: 24
Keywords: Bomb, warning, deterrence
Summary: Were the Japanese working on the Bomb?

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. 

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.

>    Now do people think that without the examples of that war, would
>we have had nuclear war after WW2?
>Cheers,		Fred Williams

Definitely! The examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been a real deterrent.

A Question: A co-worker of mine was watching a program on "Hiroshima: 40 Years
After" (or something like that), and it was mentioned on this program that
the Japanese were working on the Bomb. Can anybody enlighten us on this??

-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill