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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (22719)6/3/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte   of 108807
 
That's the one thing many people forget about nuclear weapons in '45. The radiological dimension of these bombs was practically unknown. The two salient facts were a) we had'em, and b) if we didn't use'em, count on another year and an easy hundred thousand US casualties - and many more dead Japanese.
Once WWII was over, the "moral" dimension of having and using nukes, especially in a Cold War environment, took over. MacArthur desperately wanted to nuke the North Koreans. Truman told him (and wisely imo) to go **** himself. By 1960 the threat of a really nasty intercontinental bombing match effectively wrote the ground rules for the Cold War. We had to duke it out - conventionally, by proxy - in surrogate theaters like Viet Nam and the Middle East (incl. Afghanistan).

Palindrome post. Purdy, ain't it!
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