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Old 08-28-2010, 08:40 PM
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Default Kara, one more thought

Toward the end of WWll, the suggestion was made to drop a nuclear bomb close to, but not directly on the Japanese Islands. Close enough to, well, GET THEIR ATTENTION. Looking back on the devastation that was caused, I believe it would have achieved at least that.

But in a wartime state of mind, and with the warning of 100,s of thousands of American casualties to actually conquer the islands, fear won out.

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