Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!rjb From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: addendum to my flame Message-ID: <534@akgua.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 12:47:36 EST Article-I.D.: akgua.534 Posted: Thu Feb 2 12:47:36 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 00:45:47 EST References: <6420@watdaisy.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies, Atlanta Lines: 30 The military implications of WWII without Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been discussed on the net before by others. In round numbers approximately 1 million casualties would have resulted from the necessary invasion of the main islands of Japan. In case you don't remember, the Japanese soldiers were dedicated, fierce men of war who would fight to the last man defending the OUTLYING parts of their island empire ( i.e. Okinawa etc. ). Can you imagine their ferocity in defending the home islands? I think comparisons made between the Holocaust and the use of Atomic Weapons in WWII fails by logic alone. The Allies ( The U.S. and a bunch more including the country where you probably live ) and the Axis Powers were at WAR with one another. To my way of thinking, this puts the people of all those countries at risk. However, the Jewish people were not at war with Germany - but the Jews, as well as many Christians, mentally retarded, physically handicapped, and other ethnic minorities were systematically incarcerated and later murdered - over 11 million total. Although war is abominable, the destruction and death wreaked on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought a merciful close to the war. Easily 10 times the destruction of life and property was avoided. Bob Brown {...pur-ee!inuxc!ihnp4!clyde!akgua!rjb} AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga (404) 447-3784 ... Cornet 583-3784