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In a message dated 9/23/01 12:42:24 PM, wilson.zorn@... writes:

<< Some argue that Japan would
have never surrendered, so to speak, and would have waited for invasion;
there is very little doubt that an invasion of Japan would have cost many
more lives than the dropping of the atom bombs. >>

Yes, but those lives would have been primarily soldiers.

The responsibility for taking thousands of civilian lives rested on the 
shoulders of Harry S. Truman.