David wrote:

Hiroshima would have been sufficient. Nagasaki was just for fun.

There's debate over that too. An off shore blast using an old
battleship would have served as an example. The American military
wanted to see just exactly what the bomb would do to real humans, so
the decision to use hundreds of thousands lives as guinea pigs was
made. War makes scum out many sorts.

The birth defects after the war were atrocious. They set up special
hospital wards for some of them, just to keep the victims out of sight.



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