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Skriven 2006-08-13 11:10:43 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av LEE LOFASO
Ärende: Frank - take a break (was
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-> On 12 Aug 06  06:08:00, LEE LOFASO got back to DAN CEPPA 
-> Re: Frank - take a break (was

 LL> Neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki were military targets, never having
 LL> been bombed during WWII.  

You better check that out.  

 LL> The equivalent of an Army ROTC unit does
 LL> not count as being a realistic military threat to our forces.  And

Far from that.  Hiroshima was a major army staging area.  

 DC>It was the collateral damage that was regretted the most.  Few, if
 DC>any, involved in the choice of using those weapons really understood
 DC>the long term consequences.

 LL> Oppenheimer was very aware of what kind of damage those kinds of
 LL> weapons could do.  So were many other scientists.
 
They hadn't conviced enough people of the danger.  


 DC>I know that Truman would never celibrate his decision, not then,
 DC>nor now.  Now, Curtis LeMay...

 LL> After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Gen. LeMay wanted
 LL> Truman to level a few Soviet cities.  After all, we had the Bomb and
 LL> the Soviets didn't.  Fortunately, Truman had a tad bit more sense than
 LL> LeMay.  Not much.  But a tad bit.

Similar to Patton wanting to send in the troops into Russia.  

I wonder where we'd be if either/or/both got their way?  


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