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Old December 22nd 03, 07:02 AM
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Default Hiroshima justified? (was Enola Gay: Burnt flesh and other magnificent technological achievements)

From: (cave fish)

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The horror of Hiroshima is the sheer indiscrimate nature of the
destruction. If atom bomb had been dropped on a Japanese military
target it might have been justified. But, to kill like that in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki was blind and savage overkill.

There WERE military targets in Nagasaki and Hiroshima and I'm not talking about
the civilians.

Nagasaki was a functioning port. Hiroshima had a army divisions and training
facilities as well as some mines with POWs working in them.

If you had been following this thread you'd have known this by now.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired