From tallpaul@pipeline.com Sun Feb 4 11:47:09 1996 When I read the first post by T.C. May on the mass nuclear bombings of civilians I thought his post was: a) off-topic for the cypherpunks list and; b) wrong. By the way, the certainly *is* a crypto-relevance to this thread, since much of what we knew at the time about the Japanese high command and their motivations and actions was learned through MAGIC intercepts. It also has quite a lot to do with how these intercepts (and related documents) were released over time; the intentionality of what was released, when, and how shows a good deal about how this subject was managed by our government. Since I practically started it (by calling into question Tim's recitation of the story invented about the 500,000 Americans "saved" by dropping the bomb), I'd like to call on those who are interested in it to do some more searching, reading, analyzing and talking. But not here. Thanks, /jordan