a different history

[Dave Monroe]

Death is Lighter than a Feather
Westheimer, David

http://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/3060

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wellerstein's an excellent historian of the nuclear weapons complex -- see
> his blog at http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/.
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> There's no knowing how long Japan might have withstood a blockade with
> Manchuria gone (and undoubtedly further Soviet advances or threats into
> northern China), but that alternative too would have been far from
> bloodless: see German health and mortality late in WWI, Leningrad and the
> 1944-45 "hunger winter" in the  Netherlands in WWII. Japanese nutrition was
> already hurting badly by mid-1945; unless and until the Emperor endorsed
> surrender, I can imagine hundreds of thousands of additional civilian deaths
> from malnutrition and disease.
>
> That said, my 1960 reaction to reading 'Hiroshima' remains the same: like
> all the "strategic" bombing of cities from 1939 on, it was terrorism and it
> was wrong in any context -- as was the rationale for 70 years of nuclear
> weapons development and deployment.
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> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> https://ideas.aeon.co/viewpoints/alex-wellerstein-on-what-options-were-there-for-the-united-states-regarding-the-atomic-bomb-in-1945
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