Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!emil From: emil@rochester.UUCP (Emil Rainero) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: America-bashing (use of atomic bomb) Message-ID: <11015@rochester.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 10:48:22 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.11015 Posted: Tue Aug 13 10:48:22 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 00:28:27 EDT References: <3268@drutx.UUCP> <10615@rochester.UUCP> <1733@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: emil@rochester.UUCP (Emil Rainero) Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 28 > 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. > The atom bomb was a whole new way to wage war. It would have been >better to show the Japanese what they would be up against. Then, if >they still wanted to continue, OK, what could you do? > It is true that the numbers of people killed were probably fewer >than if the war had dragged on, but it is possible that even these >people need not have been killed. > > Now do people think that without the examples of that war, would >we have had nuclear war after WW2? > >Cheers, Fred Williams 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. Emil Rainero UUCP: (..!{allegra, decvax, seismo}!rochester!emil) ARPA: emil@rochester.arpa USmail: Emil Rainero, Dept. of Comp. Sci., U. of Rochester, NY 14627. Phone: Office: (716) 275-5365 Home: (716) 424-5016