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Old 08-12-2003, 10:57 AM  
eatapeach
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dropping nuclear bombs on them after the war is over?
i know you're educated colin. you're fooling nobody ;)

by all indications the japanese military was defeated prior to bombing hiroshima and nagasaki.

there have been several books discussing why truman felt compelled to use the nuclear weapons as a signal to the russians that the US was going to assert itself in Europe after the war.

that really had to suck for the innocent civilians in those cities, huh?
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