Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe 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 Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1259 Posted: Thu Aug 15 22:07:56 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:21:59 EDT References: <1733@mnetor.UUCP> <344@persci.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 25 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