lid (John Savard) wrote:
On 12 Dec 2003 06:23:46 -0800,
(Polybus)
wrote, in part:

a celebratory exhibit
both legitimizes what happened in 1945

Anything *other* than a celebratory exhibit
would legitimize what
happened on December 7, 1941 and what happened
on other dates in other
times and places, such as the Japanese occupation
of Nanking.

An A-bomb is a tool. If it was used for wrong
purposes, for aggression
and world conquest, that would be bad. Achievements
of science and
technology that help free people to defend themselves
from evil are to
be celebrated.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
Hear, Hear. I'd rather put 15 Kt on Hiroshima and 20 Kt on Nagasaki than
risk the lives of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines of both the U.S.
and Britain in storming Kyushu. And if they don't surrender after Nagasaki-Kokura's
next on August 16th. And Tibbets has been quoted in two books that if that
mission were necessary, he would lead that mission. And here's some irony:
Kokura was home to a major Japanese CW production plant-mustard and phosgene.
Aim point was just to the NW of the plant. It was a known chemical plant,
but not until after the war did the U.S. find out it was a CW plant.

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