Hiroshima Facts wrote:
> On Jul 23, 5:15 am, Cynic wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:27:55 -0500, David Hartung
>>
>> wrote:
>>> Truman, using the information he had available at the time,
>>> determined that the use of nuclear weapons would bring the War to
>>> an end without the necessity of invading the Japanese Home Islands.
>>> Given the record of the war, it is likely that doing so not only
>>> saved thousands of American lives, but also Japanese lives.
>>
>>> Why is this a bad thing?
>>
>> It is an after-the-fact rationalisation that makes a number of
>> assumptions, any one of which may be wrong. Why *two* bombs? One
>> would have achieved the purpose you ascribe.
>
> The reason the second bomb was dropped was that Japan didn't surrender
> after the first bomb.
>
> The reason the third bomb wasn't dropped was that Japan surrendered
> after the second bomb.
May someone repeatedly bomb your family until the U$A surrenders.
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