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To: zonder who wrote (793)	12/19/2002 1:05:59 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 15987

In Okinawa, many of the defenders were teenagers, and there was a lot of collateral damage. But more than that, the Japanese had taken to deploying defense related installations widely throughout the population, using civilians as a deterrent for bombing. It would have been impossible to pacify the country without killing a large number of civilians, anyway. By the way, Truman considered Hiroshima to be a legitimate military target, because of this diffusion of war production among civilian neighborhoods. I do not know about the situation in Nagasaki......