Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to Jeff Snyder:

 RC> Jeff Snyder -> TOM WALKER wrote:

 JS>> As far as your rationalization for the two nukes is concerned, sorry,
 JS>> but I remain unconvinced of the necessity for dropping them on those
 JS>> two cities.

 RC> Yet no amount of opining will change the fact that they were dropped
 RC> and  you cannot deny the fact that had Japan been invaded and
 RC> conquered by conventional means that the death toll would have been
 RC> higher, on both sides..

Note also that the outrage over the use of the nukes is selective - more 
Japanese were killed and injured in the firebombings of Japanese cities than
were killed/injured by *both* nukes.

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