welsch@houxu.UUCP (Larry Welsch) (01/18/84)
<to that eater of fist lines> I am not an advocate of guilt trips. However, a people that successfully uses a weapon that killed a hundred thousand people, indiscriminately, in a fraction of a second should be more aware of their actions. I believe that having used an Atomic Bomb, and seen the effects on our enemies, immediate and total surrender, we should be much more careful in our threats and willingness to use it again. As to comparing the use of the bomb to the holocast, how does one compare two terrible and atrocious actions. I think history should be taught accurately. As to TDA, that did more harm to nuclear freeze than good. The TV station would have done better on a documentary on what actually happened with constant reminders of how tiny those bombs actually were. TDA gave the impression that things would not be soo bad. The NYT has reported that when the survivors saw the film in Japan, they said that TDA was mild compared to the real thing. Think about it. Larry Welsch houxu!welsch
emjej@uokvax.UUCP (01/23/84)
#R:houxu:-28900:uokvax:5000060:000:454 uokvax!emjej Jan 21 17:51:00 1984 I must admit to considerable confusion about why the source of destructive power (or more accurately, power destructively used) should make it any more horrible. How many were killed in WWII by conventional, as opposed to nuclear, weapons? I am aware that the larger atomic weapons of today are far more destructive, but in looking back at WWII, I don't see why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were any more dreadful than Dresden (for example). James Jones