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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Hiroshima and Nagasacki - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 23:00:58 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Jan 21 17:51:00 1984

I must admit to considerable confusion about why the source of destructive
power (or more accurately, power destructively used) should make it any more
horrible. How many were killed in WWII by conventional, as opposed to nuclear,
weapons? I am aware that the larger atomic weapons of today are far more
destructive, but in looking back at WWII, I don't see why Hiroshima and
Nagasaki were any more dreadful than Dresden (for example).

					James Jones