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To: steve harris who wrote (626293)	8/30/2011 4:58:54 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586858

Well, a couple of Yokio Mishima style theater actors within the Japanese Army revolted - and you see who stopped them, right? The true Japanese bushido (way of the warrior) culture also prevalent at the top of the army, never would - as I stated before - and here never did let any kind of attempt to attack the The Emperor or corrupt his Power take place. Easy, as usual I am right and you are wrong, Steve. At least in Japanese matters, that is. Bottom line: I never said the Hiroshima bomb was wrong. Just argued, that nobody, including you, have ever been able to make a good case for the necessity of dropping a 2nd bomb and that at no prior notice and just 72 hours later. Also don't under estimate the preventive effect against further Russian expansion ambitions Truman expected from this mighty demonstration of ultimate and unique power that close to Russian territory... If Truman and his military and nuke bomb expert staffs had been truly interested in a Japanese capitulation while sacrificing a minimum of additional human lives, they would have posted a (reasonable) drop dead deadline for the surrender right before and repeated it again just after the Hiroshima bomb. That said, I still don't understand, why they didn't use the opportunity to nuke the Germans months before. Maybe then the message would have hit home with those Japs (and the rapidly advancing Russians) - as well as with the Germans - a lot earlier thus saving many US soldiers and other lives. /Taro