William H. Geiger III wrote:
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In <35732427.ECA43EB9@idt.net>, on 06/01/98 at 05:59 PM, Doris Woods <dorisaw@idt.net> said:
Hi all,
bill payne wrote:
Saturday 5/30/98 5:15 PM
Masanori, the book Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Gar Alperovitz presents fairly good evidence some in US government nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki merely to impress the Russians.
Carroll Quigley said in Tragedy and Hope... they were worried the war would be over with before they got their chance to use it!
Was this before or after they estimated that it would cost upwards of 1 Million lives to take the Japan mainland by conventional forces?
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Well... a Leo Szilard web site ( How do you say it? Say sil'-ahrd.) has an article where he is interviewed titled _Leo Szilard, Interview: President Truman Did Not Understand_ http://www.peak.org/~danneng/decision/usnews.html "After all, Japan was suing for peace." "Today I would say that the confusion arose from considering the fake alternatives of either having to invade Japan or of having to use the bomb against her cities." I admit I only followed a link from Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe titled... _Target Committee Meeting, Los Alamos, May 10-11, 1945_ to get to that particular story. Of more particular interest to myself is the shipment of 65% uranium oxide, sent from the Belgian Congo, in 1939-40. 1250 tons were sent to Staten Island, NY, by Edward Sengier of Union Miniere, to prevent the Axis powers from obtaining it. p 852. It is a _good_ book. I enjoyed it. Doris Woods