Reply To: A Somber Anniversary – August 6, 1945

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And let us not forget that 120,000 death toll for the combined nuclear attacks is about half of the 200,000 + killed by Japanese troops in Nanjing.

War is brutal even when the accepted ‘rules’ of conduct are being adhered to. When this becomes mass slaughter of civilians in a collective act of barbarism one can see the outcome of the development of a super bomb to end the conflict is almost inevitable.