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From: davidra@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Penguin )
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Subject: Re: Lives saved by nuking Japan?!? (was Re: The Presidents...)
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I've heard a rumor that Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as bad as they were, made
everyone forget about Dresden, where more people died equally awful deaths.

Is this true?

The moral is that war was at least as bad before Trinity as after.