Hiroshima/Nagasaki

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<p>“We didn’t want to have to share control with the Soviets. Good point”</p>

<p>Yep, obliterating a couple of cities is much simpler solution to the problem of sharing control.</p>

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<p>If it kept us from having a divided Soviet Japan vs US/Free Japan and helped to end the war quickly it was worth it.</p>

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<p>Soviet Offensive in Manchuria began 2 days after Hiroshima. So much for “pre-empting” . Of course Red Army was moving too quickly for some people’s liking, so yeah, let’s finish it sooner rather than later. :-)</p>

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<p>Ya the Tokyo Wall wouldn’t be too good</p>

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<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/ts_nm/japan_nagasaki_dc[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/ts_nm/japan_nagasaki_dc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>click on the picture to the left to see the slide show, some of the picture’s are really good. The one I’m on right now, #26, is really really really good.</p>

<h1>38 is also good. Just remember that there were people just like the ones pictures that were killed. It puts it into perspective hopefully…</h1>

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<p>I really think that some people are forgetting that it’s possible to feel sorry for the victims of the atomic bombing while feeling that it was totally necessary. The people who were caught in the atomic blast were probably mostly civilians, and while the strategic/political act of bombing Hiroshima/Nagasaki was necessary to end the war, that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t mourn the victims themselves of the blast. Likewise, the Japanese people who committed all those horrible acts like the Rape of Nanking are not the same people who were caught in the atomic blast.</p>