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Skriven 2006-08-08 09:24:58 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Jeff Smith
Ärende: CELEBRATION!
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-> On 07 Aug 06  14:52:09, Jeff Smith got back to FRANK SCHEIDT 
-> Re: CELEBRATION!

 JS> Did dropping the bombs save lives? Probably. But I don't think
 JS> that much (Or enough) thought was given to looking at alternatives to
 JS> the bomb. As I understand it as soon as the then president was told of
 JS> the bombs availability he ordered it to be dropped. Sadly, I do think

Did you know that the Japanese had planned a nuclear attack on 
the West Coast?  It was scheduled to have happened about 2 
weeks after the Hiroshima bomb was dropped.  Had Germany held 
out for another month or two and the Manhattan project been 
delayed a mere matter of weeks, it would have occurred.  

 JS> Bottom line Frank is that the suggestion that such an event is
 JS> worth celebrating is wrong. Celebrating death is wrong! Regardless of
 JS> any percieved lives that may have been saved.
 
It should not be a matter of celebrating.  As you note, no deaths, 
or rather very few deaths, merit that.  It is interesting to speculate 
as to what would have happened if one of the assassination attempts on 
Hitler succeeded.  


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