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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (135390)6/2/2004 7:01:11 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I've seen those numbers and many people besides me have questioned those estimates: capitulation was probably at hand anyway and with a blockade, the Japanese would have had no way to acquire materiel for on-going conventional combat.

So, the question remains: when we went from scrawny kTon devices to MTon city killers, the risk to people worldwide went up or down (Japanese and American inclusive) and by how much? I remember living under the nuclear umbrella there were some days there where safety was a pretty abstract thing. The rule with weapons is that if you can do it, so can somebody else. A duel with hand grenades in an elevator leaves no one standing. Best not to go down that path.
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