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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: addendum to my flame
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 12:47:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 12:47:36 1984
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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