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To: ratan lal who wrote (44133)	5/30/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 58727

And what are your views on the one and only Nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima ?? Gee, now you've went and made the people of Nagasaki feel warm all over. Wonder what it was that hit them? Ratan, I don't intend to get into the same discussion you're having with AT, but here's the facts on the Nuclear bombing we (the US) did to Japan: Those bombs actually saved Japanese lives. WWII is a favorite subject of mine to read about, and I've read quite a bit about it. Here are some interesting facts, which any Japanese person would probably know, from "The American Heritage Picture History of WWII", copyright 1966, 640 pages. from page 589: "The US had a massive B-29 Superfortress base in the Marianas - three wings of long-range B-29's. Starting in Feb 1945, employing a new bomb containing magnesium and jellied gasoline, bombers began bombing factories, docks, urban areas, and Tokyo itself. In mid-March, General Curtis LeMay dispatched 334 B-29's from Guam, Saipan, and Tinian on the most destructive single bombing mission ever recorded. It did more damage than even the dreadful atomic explosions that were to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the night of March 9-10, just after midnight, the pounding of Tokyo started....." [There is a long discription of it, which ends with a Japanese newspaperman writing,] "The city was as bright as at sunrise; clouds of smoke, soot, even sparks driven by the storm, flew over it. That night we thought the whole of Tokyo was reduced to ashes." The raid killed 97,000 people, wounded 125,000, and left 1,200,000 homeless. "One by one, Japan's cities were reduced: Tokyo, then Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka. Each devastation was so terrible that currents of heat were flung upward into the sky, tossing the vengeful airplanes and tearing helmets from the heads of their crews. In one ten-day blitz [in March 1945], the Superfortresses wholly flattened 32 square miles of Japan's four most important centers." ------ The first atomic bomb wasn't dropped on Hiroshima until Aug 6, 1945. So you see, with or without the atomic bomb, it was a fight to the death. All participants in WWII knew that. It was a world-conflagration that, once started, spun quickly out of control. It started with Hitler running over his neighbors militarily, and Japan's quest for natural resources in the South Pacific. It ended catastrophically for Germany and Japan. Let's hope the world never has to go through that again. DK