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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] There are numerous conflicting theories about why Nagasaki, including: The U.S. had to prove (to the USSR, mostly) that they could make more than one of these things. The Japanese announcement that they would "consider" the American surrender demands was mistranslated by the Japanese translator as "reject" the demands. I even heard one anecdote, long ago, that the bombing of Nagasaki was caused (in a long, 'for want of a nail' chain of events) by one of the Japanese higher-ups having hemmorhoids. I have occasionally wondered whether 40-odd years of Cold War might have been averted if we'd managed to build a couple more at the same time and dropped them on Moscow and Leningrad. Wiped out the Soviet leadership, and rebuilt all of Europe Russia under the Marshall Plan as well. Probably not. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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