On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:47:09PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Barry Deutsch wrote:
>
> > > The U.S. nukings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were as much terrorist
> >> acts as anything else. I think they were justified terrorist
> >> acts--they succeeded in bringing an end to the Japanese militarist
> >> government, and did so with a much lower butcher's bill than any
> >> conceivable invasion of Honshu. But that doesn't change their
> >> character...
> >
> >This assumes that it would have been implausible to end the war without
> >either dropping the nukes or doing a full scale invasion of Japan. Many
> >current historians don't feel that's a safe assumption.
>
> No, and it was probably directed more against the USSR than Japan anyway.
>
> Doug
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