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From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: Re: America-bashing (use of atomic bomb)
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:33:04 EDT
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> >    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. 

	Good idea Fred.

> I think there was a problem producing material for more than two
> bombs.  I heard somewhere about it taking another year to get enough the
> make additional bombs.  This info was a bit encrusted in the space between
> my ears, so I may be way off.

My understanding was that a third bomb, and subsequent bombs, were 
being prepared for detonation above another Japanese city when Japan 
surrendered. I read in a recent Newsweek that Oppenheimer promised
16 nuclear weapons could be readied within a very short time frame.

-todd jones