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Old 12-08-2003, 08:08 PM   #46 (permalink)
Easytiger
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You know what? It wasn't the atomic bombs that made the Japanese surrender- it was the conventional bombing of Tokyo that did it. Hiroshima was a small city of no particular significance and Nagasaki was one of many ports. Granted, the use of atomic weapons was intended to shock the Japanese into surrendering rather than destroy vital infrastructure, but it was regular air power that forced the Japanese to surrender.
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