On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Estimates of hundreds of thousands were at the time. >
The estimates made at the time said there would be hundreds thousands of causalities, maybe that estimate was too high and maybe it wasn't, we will never know, but we do know that estimate was the only one of any importance because it was the only one that had the potential to change things. >Primary sources. That have completely changed the picture. > Changed what picture? If you want to know why the bomb was dropped it's useless to look for information that was not available at the time, you've got to put yourself in the position of a young soldier 70 years ago who in the last 4 years had seen horrors far worse than anything we who have not been in combat can imagine, and now this soldier has a morbid dread of the upcoming bloodbath called the invasion of Japan. Do that and it's easy to see that there was absolutely no way the bomb would not have been dropped; any president who didn't use it would certainly have been impeached and would probably be hung for treason. And if I was a soldier back then I would have happily put the noose around his neck myself. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
