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To: zarf

They continued to resist AFTER Hiroshima... thats why there was Nagasaki. That should answer the question.


13 posted on 08/03/2005 11:04:26 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Doesn't answer the morality question. War is hell, fine but..


14 posted on 08/03/2005 11:07:54 PM PDT by zarf
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To: GeronL
They continued to resist AFTER Hiroshima... thats why there was Nagasaki. That should answer the question.

Yes. After Hiroshima, the Japanese military convinced themselves that we didn't have enough nuclear material for a second bomb, and they also convinced Hirohito. Thus Nagasaki.

I don't know if we had enough for a third or not, but the Japanese didn't want to take that chance, and that's what matters.

68 posted on 08/04/2005 3:46:54 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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