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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Tokyo and Kyoto were both in range of American planes--if the United States was seeking the most deaths, and the largest societal impact, those two cities could have been hit instead of the two which were.

Not to take the wind out of anyone's sails, but Tokyo and Kyoto were hit. Research Curtis Le May's incendiary bombing campaign.

Part of the reason Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as A-Bomb targets was the fact they had been pretty much left alone and would give a better idea of how damaging the bombs were.

251 posted on 03/11/2007 12:53:07 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Appreciated.

According to other freepers, and Wikipedia, you're spot on about Tokyo being all but crushed by conventional bombing. However, Kyoto was supposed to have been one of the targets for a nuclear strike. It was deselected because of its heavy cultural impact on Japan (the cultural and traditional capital of Japan).


Is there a way to look at things recently added to a computer (small things, not entire programs, such as plugins, patches, updates, etc.)? Is there some sort of log?

259 posted on 03/11/2007 5:50:02 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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