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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 578489" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>A few facts to remember;</p><p> </p><p>Something like 2 million people died during the incindiary firebombings of Tokyo and Osaka in March of 1945. Less than half a million were killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As horrific as the A-bombs were, they were nowhere near as deadly as the combined effects of the American firebombings and naval blockade of the home islands which by August had reduced the Japanese civilian population to starvation.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately <em>20 million</em> Chinese civilians died during the Japanese war against China from 1936 thru 1945.</p><p> </p><p>Tens of thousands of allied POW's and Indonesian/Burmese/Chinese/Philipino civilians had died of starvation, disease and brutality at the hands of Japanese invaders in SE Asia. Many more would have died every day had the war gone on any longer.</p><p> </p><p>Another fact which is not commonly known; on April 20th 1945, a long-range German U-boat (U-232) left Germany en route to Japan with a cargo of military supplies which included several hundred pounds of Uranium 235. When Germany surrendered on May 7 this boat was captured by American naval patrols and its cargo was analyzed. The discovery of the uranium led to fears that Japan was attempting to build an A-bomb of its own. This was not the case; Japan lacked the technology to construct an A-bomb but it <em>did</em> have a plan to use the uranium in radioactive "dirty bombs" that would have been dropped on San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Panama Canal by aircraft launched from submarines. Fortunately, the Japanese were forced to surrender before they were able to implement this plan.</p><p> </p><p>Josef Stalin made a famous quote; "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."</p><p> </p><p>In the inhuman and brutal calculus of war, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ultimately <em>saved </em>lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 578489, member: 14668"] A few facts to remember; Something like 2 million people died during the incindiary firebombings of Tokyo and Osaka in March of 1945. Less than half a million were killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As horrific as the A-bombs were, they were nowhere near as deadly as the combined effects of the American firebombings and naval blockade of the home islands which by August had reduced the Japanese civilian population to starvation. Approximately [I]20 million[/I] Chinese civilians died during the Japanese war against China from 1936 thru 1945. Tens of thousands of allied POW's and Indonesian/Burmese/Chinese/Philipino civilians had died of starvation, disease and brutality at the hands of Japanese invaders in SE Asia. Many more would have died every day had the war gone on any longer. Another fact which is not commonly known; on April 20th 1945, a long-range German U-boat (U-232) left Germany en route to Japan with a cargo of military supplies which included several hundred pounds of Uranium 235. When Germany surrendered on May 7 this boat was captured by American naval patrols and its cargo was analyzed. The discovery of the uranium led to fears that Japan was attempting to build an A-bomb of its own. This was not the case; Japan lacked the technology to construct an A-bomb but it [I]did[/I] have a plan to use the uranium in radioactive "dirty bombs" that would have been dropped on San Francisco, Los Angeles and the Panama Canal by aircraft launched from submarines. Fortunately, the Japanese were forced to surrender before they were able to implement this plan. Josef Stalin made a famous quote; "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." In the inhuman and brutal calculus of war, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ultimately [I]saved [/I]lives. [/QUOTE]
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