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From: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: World War II
Message-ID: <474@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 12:31:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 12:31:28 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 10-May-85 07:57:20 EDT
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Reply-To: maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur)
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>possibility of setting off WWIII.  The morality of using one in such a
>situation should be no different than the morality of killing the same number
>of people with conventional bombs.  Everyone was bombing civilians in that
>war - we have no cause to feel a special shame for doing it with an
>atomic bomb.  

    There were other bombings of cities that resulted in many more deaths
and a larger destruction of cities than the ones that were hit by the
atomic bombs. The fire bombings of Tokyo and Dresden were such examples.
In fact, the Army Air Corps tried a few other times to start fire storms
in other cities, but for one reason or another, a fire storm never started.
However, the only difference between the atomic bombings and others was
that there was only one bomb as opposed to hundreds or thousands of bombs.

    Roger Levasseur