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![]() " but when we're talking about a strategy capable of wiping out the entire human race, this villager refuses to concede any moral authority to the pro-atomic position." Question: Wouldn't it take an awful lot of A bombs to accomplish wiping out the human race?? Then with the A bomb or now with the current nuclear weaponry?? What percentage of Japan land and / or humans did the bombing in the two cities wipe out compared to the total land mass and / or population? I did a Yahoo search and the two cities seem to still be there and thriving , hotels and all. So the physical land seems to be still there. I know the Japanese weren't completely wiped out back then but could it be done today? Do we really have that kind of arsenal? I mean a country that size literally wiped clean?? Is it necessary with the current accuracy of what we do have, nuclear or conventional? Why develop the daisy cutter or that other huge bomb they recently tested in Florida?? ( I forget it's name at the moment. ) I guess it would be a question of volume of bombs as compared to the power of a single bomb. Those against using the A bomb make it sound like a single nuclear bomb dropped today would literally disintegrate half of the world. Or are they more concerned that a nuclear bomb would kill life when coupled with winds blowing radioactive death along with a bunch of other ripe conditions to carry the effects of the bomb beyond it's minimal effectiveness? Growing up I learned in school that a single bomb could destroy the whole world. Bad, bad, bad. Reading these current threads, I have seen that one didn't do it. A second one made Japan surrender, but the country is still there along with the rest of the world, so the second one didn't do it. The effects seem relatively localized. |
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