Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: World War II Message-ID: <185@unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-May-85 13:25:19 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.185 Posted: Thu May 9 13:25:19 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 12-May-85 01:01:35 EDT References: <919@homxa.UUCP> <> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 27 One difference between our bombings of civilians and the Nazi's exterminations of civilians, is that we always gave them the chance to save themselves by surrendering. The nazis, on the otherhand, accelerated the exterminations after the victims surrendered. Frank Silbermann In article maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur) writes: > >>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