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To: Ish who wrote (55455)	8/30/2000 8:17:11 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The Japanese military's initial reaction to Hiroshima was "how soon can we have our own bomb?". Or so said an article I read in an English-language Japanese newspaper, which quoted a number of officers and scientists who discussed this the day after the bombing. Surrender wasn't exactly paramount in Japanese thinking. After Nagasaki, the Emperor, who wasn't all that politically strong, was able to convince the warlords that they simply couldn't stand up to what the Americans were unleashing. They had no idea of how many of these bombs we had, and didn't want to find out. Have you ever wondered why so much objection was made to atomic bombs, when as many Japanese civilians perished from conventional bombing? Tokyo was nearly burned to the ground. I guess it was evil to kill by atomic blast whereas it was moral to burn people to a crisp with phosphorus. Or maybe there was always another agenda at work, one that didn't fear a conventionally armed America, but found nuclear weapons a real deterrent.