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Thanks to those who worked on the Manhattan project that made those pictures possible.

I am glad we nuked them.
I wished we could have nuked them sooner.
It saved at least 100,000 American lives from dying in a mainland Japan invasion, and probably 500,000 Jap lives.


29 posted on 05/03/2008 11:27:57 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
It saved at least 100,000 American lives from dying in a mainland Japan invasion, and probably 500,000 Jap lives.

My dad was on Okinawa preparing for that invasion, following a very narrow miss by the Kamikaze that struck the Maryland after flying few feet over his head. Those little factoids do color my perception of the atomic bombings...

43 posted on 05/03/2008 11:39:37 AM PDT by null and void (No man's life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session...)
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It saved at least 100,000 American lives from dying in a mainland Japan invasion, and probably 500,000 Jap lives.

The number I saw were more like 500,000 and 1,500,000...

79 posted on 05/03/2008 12:43:28 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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