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Re: Hiroshima-Was It Necessary?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:17:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > From what I heard from a US history teacher, the question was being
> > considered as to whether or not to test on an uninhabited island. We were
> > considering "demonstrating" on the island to other nations, but were worried
> > that "What if the tests failed? We'd look stupid!". Hence, if tests were all
> > that were needed, there would be plenty of other targets to hit.
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> Why was there no demo explosion in an uninhabited island to convince the
> Japanese of the power of the bomb? What would be lost? If it failed - nobody
> would know. If the real thing failed, the Japanese would have a bomb (or at
> least bits of one).
No, the idea was that they'd invite other nations to send representatives to
witness the event-- not that we couldn't have merely recorded the event
anyway. At least such was my understanding. I don't remember if it was
explicitly said, or whether I simply had inferred that upon hearing it, but
I do remember the logic being that the US would be publically embarrassed if
the bomb test failed. And the other key element I didn't mention was that
IIRC, we had 4 bombs available to use. If it *did* work, we would have
wasted a rather valuable bomb.
DaveE
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| (...) I'd question that part. Not too many years earlier a good chunk of the US populace believed we were being invaded by Mars. Even today, credulous lout believe that the moon landings were faked, so if we'd simply shown a film of our nuclear (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Why was there no demo explosion in an uninhabited island to convince the Japanese of the power of the bomb? What would be lost? If it failed - nobody would know. If the real thing failed, the Japanese would have a bomb (or at least bits of (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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