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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Lives saved by nuking Japan?!? (was Re: The Presidents...)
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Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 18:55:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 16 18:55:39 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 [sic] 5_ was an American POW held in Dresden.
> 	-Alan Jeddeloh
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Kurt Vonnegut himself was a POW held in Dresden during the bombing.
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Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan