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: <429@baylor.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 17:04:28 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.429 Posted: Fri Aug 16 17:04:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:28:53 EDT References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> <1733@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 14 > 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. They had never dropped a bomb. They didn't even know if it would work, and if it did, whether the backup would (the two bombs had completely different designs). They only had the 2 bombs and weren't prepared to produce them in quantity quickly. Thus, they weren't even sure if they had the option of the real thing later. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076