Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing (use of atomic bomb) Message-ID: <503@baylor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 14:02:16 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.503 Posted: Wed Aug 21 14:02:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:42:07 EDT References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> <1733@mnetor.UUCP> <2326@watcgl.UUCP> <655@utai.UUCP> <2371@watcgl.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 16 > > > 1. apparently the US joint chiefs estimated US deaths at 50,000 if > > > the war was fought to a close with conventional weapons. Depending > > > on who you are saving 50,000 american lives in return for killing > > > 200,000 japanese lives might seem like a good trade but it is not > > > true that more lives would have been lost without the bomb. Irrespective of how many American lives would have been lost in an invasion, it's highly likely that a good deal more than 200,000 japanese lives would have been lost. If nothing else there is no doubt in my mind that the fire- bombing of Tokyo would have continued and spread to other cities. Japanese cities would burn much more impressively than German ones, due to the rice- paper construction of many of the houses. -- Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076