Re: AW: more st lucie workers expsoed

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 11/23/02 4:15:46 PM Mountain Standard Time, franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT writes:


> Hiroshima and Nagasaki was intended to kill as many people as possible



No.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki were intended to demonstrate that one bomb carried by one plane could devastate a city, and that the bomb was a powerful new weapon, more efficient than anything Japan had.  A number of incendiary bomb attacks killed more people in a single raid than either atom bomb:  the bombing of Tokyo, the two "Battles of Britain," the bombing of Dresden, for example.


Could we please stop re-fighting World War II?

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com