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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing (use of atomic bomb)
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 14:02:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 14:02:16 1985
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> > >  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.
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