[Fwd: Re: abombs]

[William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>]

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Subject: Re: abombs
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:42:31 -0400
From: Norman & Karen Cohen <norco@bellatlantic.net>
To: William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>
References: <3989FFD0.334B8307@bellatlantic.net>
<398AA229.A69C67AF@dteenergy.com>

no problem, go ahead.

...

norm


William V Lipton wrote:

> With your permission, I'd like to post this to RADSAFE.
>
> Bill
>
> Norman & Karen Cohen wrote:
>
> > I still can't post to radsafe, only read messages. MY group, the Coalition for P/J, has sponsored visits from Hibakusha for years during Hiroshima/Nagasaki week. And we always make it clear in our press releases and handouts that
> > we hear this testiony not to place blame or responsibility for what happened, but as a reminded of the
> > awesome destruction nuke weapons have and could still cause. My dad fought in WWII. He ended up in the CBI
> > theatre for the last few years of the war. I respect what he did, and while I'm a peace activist, in the context of those times, I might well have fought too.
> >
> > norm
> >
> > William V Lipton wrote:
> >
> > > I am appalled by what seems to be the defensiveness and total lack of compassion on the part of many who responded to this thread.  While I firmly believe that this use of nuclear weapons was justified as a means to shorten the
> > > war and reduce casualties on both sides, this is not much comfort to those, including some U.S. POW's, who suffered greatly from this.  Their calls for peace should be strongly supported.
> > >
> > > The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
> > > It's not about dose, it's about trust.
> > >
> > > Bill Lipton
> > > liptonw@dteenergy.com
> > >
> > > Michael S Ford wrote:
> > >
> > > > 'Just think of what a VERY different world we might be in if the Japanese had never made an unprovoked attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor.
> > > >
> > > > There may not have been any Japanese A-bomb survivor stories to print.  There may not have been visions of mushroom clouds associated with the term "nuclear."  We all might have been doing something .... completely different.
> > > >
> > > > Hmm.....
> > > >
> > > > v/r
> > > > Michael
> > > > TRAB
> > > >
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