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From: lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: problems with Star Wars #2 (part 2: the crux) (LONG)
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 15:37:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 15:37:00 1985
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> Nuking cities is something that was done once, strictly for dramatic effect,
> to end the second world war.  I don't think it's on people's minds today
> as a direct end.
> 
> I know this will be an unpopular statement, but I trust the USA not to
> engage in a first strike.  They used the bomb twice, but to end a massive
> global conflict.  
> Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 

Was the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki required to win WWII? Hadn't
it become just a mopping-up operation when the bombs were dropped?

> ... strictly for dramatic effect ...
   Probably so.

Lionel H. Moser
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland
Canada      A1C 5S7
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