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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (196635)	10/26/2001 11:53:47 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I have always believed that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fortuitous in that there was a clear benefit to the first use of nuclear fission weapons under the circumstances. Quite certainly, millions of lives were spared in exchange for the 150,000 or so that were lost. A friend told me his parents, who are now Americans, survived the Hiroshima blast. Although they were not far from the epicenter, they were saved by a small intervening hill which directed the effects away from them. The genie is out of the bottle already; Pandora's Box is open. Everyone knows that must be the last time nuclear weapons are used for any purpose short of complete desperation in the face of anihilation. We are nowhere near that point in Afghanistan. Not even remotely.