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To: stand watie
that is why Tokyo was NOT bombed with the atomic munitions.

LOL. With all the paper and cardboard buildings in Toyko, they didn't need nukes, just a few thousand tons of WP.

Tokyo was virtually flattened in a series of missions that included the March 9-10, 1945 incendiary raid in which an estimated 80,000 to 120,000 Japanese perished (more than in any other raid of the war, including the two atomic bomb attacks).

863 posted on 11/25/2003 11:03:19 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: Ditto
true.

no less a person than GEN McArthur said that Tokyo should NOT be bombed with nukes as it was a CIVILIAN target of little intrinsic miltary value.

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878 posted on 11/25/2003 2:11:21 PM PST by stand watie (Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God. ,T. Jefferson)
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