Peter Aitken wrote:

"Mycroft" david wrote in message
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Look up the projected losses on both sides that an invasion of Japan would
have caused then tell me how in-humane the A bomb was. Plus you forgot to
mention that the fire bombing of Axis cities caused losses in some cases
greater than both A bombs, war is hell but in the pacific the A bomb ended
it.

This overlooks two alternatives.

1) We could have dropped the bomb in a lightly populated area to show the
Japanese that we had it and hopefully scared them into surrender.

They could have dropped the bomb on a big city too to show the Japanese
they had the bomb, and scare them into surrender.

Hang on a minute! They DID drop a bomb on a big city and DID show the
Japanese they HAD the bomb. Guess who didn't surrender?

ronh

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