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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: willcousa who wrote (54466)10/23/2001 12:56:28 PM
From: Alan Gallaspy  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
Will,

The war with Japan was already won, they had no merchant fleet left. The decision to drop the bomb was purely political. The rationale that 1000's of American lives were spared is just the balm that had to be applied to our conscience in order to justify cooking over 200,000 Japanese civilians.

Here is just a small sample of the brass that were in the Pacific at the time who knew that the atom bombing Japanese cities was unnecessary.

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