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From: <dchapsk@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [L-OT] Atomic Bomb/Japan


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> In a message dated 9/23/01 12:42:24 PM, wilson.zorn@... writes:
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> << 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. >>
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> Yes, but those lives would have been primarily soldiers.
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"would have been" is not factual but opinion.  The collateral damage of an
invasion (bombing of major cities) as well as moreover the likely response
of much of the Japanese population plus the necessary collateral civilian
damage by artillery may well have produced higher civilian casualties.  We
do not know for sure.  Personally, I have no idea.

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