[Vision2020] Correction: Re: Former U of I Professor Witnessed Hiroshima, Nagasaki Blasts

[Ted Moffett]

All:

I did not intend to append all that information to my previous post, with
the above subject heading, that was available at the web link, in that
previous post, to info on former U of I Physics professor Larry Johnston.  I
specifically attempted to delete this info out of my post...Some of this
unintendedly appended information regarding Professor Johnston is even
duplicated.  I will blame this on the Moscow Public Library computer.  I, of
course, like the computer HAL in "2001:A Space Odyssey," am "foolproof and
incapable of error."

"Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do..."

Sorry!

Ted Moffett


On 11/15/06, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> All:
>
> The fact Nagasaki was atom bombed three days after Hiroshima blows a hole
> in the theory the atom bombing of Japan had as its primary goal the overall
> reduction in war casualties.  This has been studied up down left right and
> every which way, and it is difficult to understand why there was not a
> longer waiting period for the Japanese to fully comprehend what had happened
> in Hiroshima, before bombing another major Japanese city a mere three days
> later, except that there were other rationales for wanting to use the Atom
> bomb beyond forcing a Japanese surrender, suitable to the Allies, to avoid
> massive casualties in taking Japan.
>
> And what might these rationales have been?  Revenge, for one, a motivation
> that some consider prominent in the carpet bombing of Dresden in Germany in
> the later days of WWII, killing tens of thousands of civilians, when Germany
> was also on its last legs, when bombing Dresden was militarily not
> necessary, according to many experts.  Or rather, a way of sending a message
> to any other nation who dared to attack the USA that this is what they would
> face.  Two, a demonstration specifically to the Soviet Union, the USA's
> major military threat at that time, of the capability and willingness of the
> US to use the atom bomb on heavily civilian urban areas.  Three, a test of
> the capabilities of the atom bomb on a real world "military" target, a kind
> of test difficult to simulate.
>
> Consider that conventional bombing in WWII killed more people than the
> atom bombs on Japan.  The US could have destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> with conventional carpet bombing runs, as in Dresden, if they wanted.  Tokyo
> had already been fire bombed by the US killing between 80,000-200,000. Why
> was this approach not used this to force a surrender, avoiding the long term
> horrors of radiation sickness and poisoning for the civilian population?
> Indeed, with conventional bombing Japan could have been nearly entirely
> destroyed to force a surrender before sending ground troops.
>
> Fire bombing of Tokyo info:
>
> http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tokyo.htm
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> Former U of I Physics professor Lawrence Johnston was a scientific
> observer aboard observation aircrafts conducting measurements during the
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts.  According to the National Academy of
> Sciences, Johnston is the only person to have witnessed the Trinity,
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions.
>
> Read about it here on page 4:
>
> http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cisac/Trinity_BIOs.pdf
>
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> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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