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Subject: The Bomb
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Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:25:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:25:37 1985
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The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had nothing to do with the Japanese.
The Japanese were ready to surrender almost unconditionally.  They only
asked to be able to retain their emperor. We said no we wanted complete
surrender we dropped the bombs and killed 200,000 people and got their
unconditional surrender.  They then got to keep their emperor (thanks to
General MacArthur who saw it as a way of keeping peace) why then did we
kill 200,000 people.  It was to show the Soviet Union just what kind of
power we had. Whatever the Japanese did during the war does not excuse this.
Two wrongs never create a right. 

   I though do not feel the real question is wether we should have dropped
the bomb or not.  The question is how do we prevent it from every happening 
agian. MAny may say it can't but we have come close before.  A few examples

         MacArthur in Korea wanted to drop them on China.
         John Kennedy during the Cuban Missle Crisis.
         Richard Nixon during the Vietnam Conflict (remeber it wasn't a war).

This is the bigger of the problems.  We can argue all we want about something 
that all ready happened but that won't change it.  Hopefully though we can
work towards stopping it from ever happening again.  How we can change it
I am not sure I do not believe in unilaterial disarmament or anything like
that but we should try to bring pressure upon governments to effect a change.
If we don't maybe next time when they get close to pushing that little red
button they actually will.

                   

                           Brian Mahoney

                            "these opinions are right but 
                             it doesn't make them true"