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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:19 PM Original message |
I've changed my mind about Hiroshima |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. It was really used to bully the Russians from steamrollering over... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. A mostly unacknowledged fact. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Agreed, that's not my deepest area of understanding. Seemed... |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yes, however could have been done with a demo |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. A public demonstration of the Trinity test |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. I've always said that a demo would've been good, but Dad . . . |
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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. indeed, Russia was the "audience" |
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TallahasseeGrannie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. I believe that Truman, himself |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. I agree |
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mcscajun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
6. I didn't need to change my mind. I read the book "Hiroshima" |
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wicket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:36 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Excellent book |
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mcscajun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:39 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yes, that line has never, ever left me. Most powerful image ever. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. In grade school... |
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mom cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. K&R and thanks for your story about your journey. |
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megatherium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
14. PBS had an interesting documentary last year on the end of |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 03:29 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. It makes the use of the bomb understandable |
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megatherium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Use of the bomb didn't solve the problem of war. |
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sueragingroz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 04:28 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. According to Oppenheimer |
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megatherium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 08:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. The key phrase is "terms other than unconditional surrender." |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 10:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
28. You forget, Japan only had ONE condition for a surrender... |
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megatherium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 08:04 AM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Not really. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 08:48 PM Response to Original message |
19. truman was a poker player |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:34 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I have a problem with the "would be" part |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. if you argue that the future is unknowable |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. So attacking civilian populations is OK sometimes? |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 12:22 AM Response to Reply #25 |
31. sunday quarterbacking is lazy strategy and lazy morality as well |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
22. Really? |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:41 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Call me naive |
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raysr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
26. I grew up in the |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:52 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I went to a high school named after the author |
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neebob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 11:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I can relate |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 12:17 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I hear you |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
32. in the 50's when i was growing up |
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