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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: w0z who wrote (65515)8/30/2002 10:51:56 AM
From: Cary Salsberg  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
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RE: "There is little doubt that the atomic bombs saved many more lives (both Japanese and American) than they killed."

This has been the "standard" rationalization. Truman might have believed this when he made his decision, but historians question its accuracy, today.
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