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(David Hall) wrote in message . com...

First let me say that I basically agree with Truman's decision to drop
the bombs on Japan. That said, those bombs and especially such bombing
campaigns as Dresden and the firebombing of numerous Japanese cities
were specifically designed to terrorize the civilian populations into
no longer supporting their governments and war efforts. They were a
larger scale and more intense version of Sherman's march to the sea.
They clearly were not destruction of war production nor even partially
attempts to destroy armed forces - they were terror campaigns.

But they _were_ in fact partially that.

The "Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works" and "Mitsubishi-Urakami Ordnance
Works/Torpedo Works" were destroyed beyond repair by the Nagasaki
bomb.

The Hiroshima bomb exploded near the headquarters of the Japanese
Third Army (responsible for the defense of Kyushu) and instantly
killed 20,000 soldiers stationed there.