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To: Bill Grant who wrote (6453)	1/22/1998 12:12:00 AM
From: Rob	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116756

Bill, A-Bombs Had Other Purpose than Defeat of Japan My two cents: Japan was on the verge of defeat prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese forces had been beaten back nearly to their homeland and were left with virtually no war fighting capability. Their Air Force was destroyed. The Americans had bases close enough to Japan at that point that they could have just carried out a precision bombing campaign with their B-29s and destroyed the industrial capacity and infrastructure of the country (similar to the Air campaign in the Gulf War). "Truman claims to have made the decision to drop the bomb based on an assessment that Japan was not close to surrendering, and that a prolongation of the war at that point would have cost a huge continuing body count on both sides." OF COURSE Truman would have had to provide some sort of justification for the bombing or history would have viewed him as the mass murderer that he really was (intentionally targeting a civilian populace with nuclear weapons?) There are no war crimes tribunals for the winners, only for the losers. The real reason for Hiroshima and Nagasaki is simple. The US knew the war would be ending soon, and a much more menacing threat was already emerging. The U.S. wanted to send a clear signal to the Russians that the US would destroy them if they had any inclination of "including" the US in their empire. Rob