From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:11:13 -0500, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> Probably not; even without fire bombing we were approaching a complete
>> blockade. But you have to include in the calculation how long that
>> blockade would have required to bring the Imperial circle to the stage
>> it reached around August 10, 1945. How many Japanese would have died
>> of hunger and associated diseases?
>
> But a line could have been drawn under that.  People are still dying from
> the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.
>
>

People are still dying of conventional injuries sustained during WWII and
the Korean war as well.

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Gary Wiltshire

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