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To: zonder who wrote (54605)	10/25/2002 10:07:57 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

Please explain how two nuclear bombs on two major cities filled with civilians saved Japanese lives. That isn't an unreasonable opinion. Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked the Japanese into surrendering. If the war had continued long enough, many more Japanese civilians would have died as a result of conventional warfare than were killed in those two cities.

To: zonder who wrote (54605)	10/25/2002 10:18:06 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Please explain how two nuclear bombs on two major cities filled with civilians saved Japanese lives. I am all ears. Well.. try and become "all fingers" and do a web query on Operation Downfall, Olympic, and Coronet.. And then assess the number of casualties which would have occurred has the US been forced to engage in a strictly conventional solution... And then factor in starvation for the general Japanese population... Then ponder the misery which likely would have amounted from the creation of a N. Japan and S. Japan.. one communist and the other democratic... Hawk@thehistorythatneverwasbutcouldhavebeen.com

To: zonder who wrote (54605)	10/25/2002 10:18:54 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>Please explain how two nuclear bombs on two major cities filled with civilians saved Japanese lives.<< That's a calculation which was made at the time, based on projections based on inferences drawn from experience in other battles with the Japanese. The honest truth is that what really mattered to us was that using them would save American lives. I don't think anybody really understood the terrible devastation these bombs would cause. They've never been used again. Even thinking about them is terrifying.