a different history

[John Bailey]

It's a neat trick how 'terrorism' becomes 'demonstration of dominance'
when the good guys push the button.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Death is Lighter than a Feather
> Westheimer, David
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> http://untpress.unt.edu/catalog/3060
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> 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/.
>>
>> 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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