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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Matthews" <Groovey@...>
To: <logic-ot@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [L-OT] Atomic Bomb/Japan


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> From: <dchapsk@...> wrote:
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> > I've always been under the impression that the US could have beaten
Japan
> > without dropping the A-bomb.  Just like we beat Hitler
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> that might be true but;
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> 1. with millions more of dead on both sides.
> 2. The US didnt beat Nazi Germany, Russia did, the Russains and Japanese
> agreed not to fight each other

#2 is rather misleading.  Russia, Britain, the United States, and a number
of other allies beat Nazi Germany.  There is considerable evidence, though I
am not claiming it's conclusive though I think it might be, that the Western
powers slowed their advance towards Berlin to allow the Russians to get
there at the same time if not first.  In any case, it is misleading to say
that the United States did not defeat Germany and Russia did.

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> > But we had this new toy, and...   "let's see if it works."
> >
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>  they knew it worked because it was tested in the Nevada desert  (in what
> became area 51, I think). The use of the atom bomb at the end of ww2
> actually saved far more lives than it killed.
>

It is widely believed to have saved far more lives than it killed.  (I
suppose I've hedged so much people think I don't share that opinion but I
do.  It just isn't quite 100% enough to say it's a fact, though).

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> > Now we have $40 billion to play with.
> >
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> lets hope it is spent wisely......
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