Keith Willshaw wrote:
"old hoodoo" wrote in message
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They were the bad guys, thats a given. That is not the issue.
The issue is, did we, the good guys, go down to the bad guys level.

Given that we didnt tie wounded POW's to trees
with barbed wire and use them for bayonent
pratctise I'd say no we didnt.

Its my understanding that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targeted
because they were undamaged cities... it had nothing to do
with their military production capacity.

Your understanding is deficient

Hiroshima was the HQ and base for one of the major
armies tasked with defending Japan. At least 3 divisions
were in the area when the attacked happened and the
aiming point was the HQ building. Moreover Hiroshima
was a major naval base.

Nagasaki was one of the centres of the Japanese armaments
industry with major Mitsubishi aircraft and munitions
plants which were destroyed in the attack.

The instructions issued by Harry Truman were that the
targets were to be military targets.

Neither of the cities bombed was "undamaged," either.

It is true that neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki had been bombed for some
months (three?) before the atomic bombings. I vaguely recall reading
that there was a request for this so that the effects of the bombs could
be studied closely. But I may be talking through my hat.

And of course, from the coincidence file, the submarine that sank the
cruiser USS Indianapolis (*after* she delivered the bomb core for Little
Boy to Tinian) was homeported in Hiroshima.
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