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To: Area51 who wrote (3774)	10/9/2001 1:52:09 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) of 281500

It is not inconceivable that Japan could have delayed enough to develop it's own bomb That is completely inconceivable. Certainly many more U.S lives would have been sacrificed. Incorrect. Considerably informed sources knew that Japan was being strangled by the blockade, and could very conceivably have fallen without even an invasion, let alone the atomic bombs. Also, that link you provided gave the incorrect body count for Nagasaki. The actual number is 140,000, which is far greater than even the fire-bombing of Dresden. airpowermuseum.org As the one person in the Tokyo tribunal who had any background in international law (Radhabinod Pal) said, if there is any crime in the Asian aspect of WWII which compared to the crimes of the Nazis, it was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tom

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