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From: alanj@orca.UUCP (Alan Jeddeloh)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Lives saved by nuking Japan?!? (was Re: The Presidents...)
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 12:30:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 13 12:30:06 1986
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In article <457@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> davidra@batcomputer.UUCP (Penguin (Rabson)) writes:
>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?

Yep.  The fire storm was intense enough to melt china dinner plates.  The
people were cooked alive in the bomb shelters.  The difference was we did
it with conventional fire bombs.  Dresden was supposed to be a retaliation
for London, Coventry, ... etc.  There are some who feel we overdid it.

The hero in Vonnegut's _Slaughterhour 5_ was an American POW held in Dresden.

	-Alan Jeddeloh