Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!todd From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: America-bashing (use of atomic bomb) Message-ID: <316@SCIRTP.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:33:04 EDT Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.316 Posted: Thu Aug 15 12:33:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:05:53 EDT References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> <1733@mnetor.UUCP> <11015@rochester.UUCP> Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 18 > > 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