At 02:10 PM 7/25/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>And if they were indeed emotionally damaged for life, why haven't I heard
>anything about Americans en masse running to psychiatrists, psychologists
>and other therapists right after the war?
Americans have been deeply troubled by nuclear weapons ever since we used
them.
Maybe you don't hear much about it in Europe, but there is a vigorous
debate in this country on whether bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the
right and proper thing to do at the time. There are a great many people
who think that we should never use these weapons again.
JDG - Who is old enough to have grown up with "air raid" drills in school
as a young child, and thus has been thinking about nuclear weapons for as
long as he can remember.
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