(was Enola Gay: Burnt flesh and other magnificent technological
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Date: 12/23/2003 1:30 PM Central Standard Time
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(B2431) wrote in message
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I ask again, how would YOU have taken out the legitimate targets in
Nagasaki
and Hiroshima using only weapons available in WW2?

The same way that all previous legitimate targets were taken out
during WWII.

While I'll admit that the firebombing of German metros led to civilian
casualties approaching the same number of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, there is
no comparison between the destruction of architecture as women and
children huddle underground - and the bright shining incineration of
all life within miles, poisoning the land for a generation.

One of the reasons the numbers of the dead in Hamburg and Dresden are on par
with Hiroshima or Nagasaki is because the women and children who "huddled"
underground were either cooked alive or had the air sucked out of them.

When it comes to that there were thre differences between the firebombings and
atomic attacks: number of allied lives lost, duration of the attack (read
suffering of the victims) and radiation. Bear in mind long term radiation
effects were unknown at the time.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired