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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Given that the loss of life that would have resulted from a non-atomic attack on Japan's home islands could have have reached 10 TIMES that many on their side ALONE, what would YOU have done, O' great Master of Warfare? Liam: the reasons would have been the same reasons for which the Cold War was fought for 40 years: to destroy Leninist/Stalinist Communism. Just faster and more effectively, by cutting off its head rather than worrying at bits of its body and trying to stomp its eggs. And without the threat of the same destruction in response. Oh, and I should have made this clearer... my concept was that after Communist Russia had been destroyed, the nuclear weapon/energy program could then have been put under the control of the UN, where it would take the agreement of the Security Council (or maybe even the General Assembly) to ever use them again. So that the U.S. wouldn't be the sole possessor, and, with the Veto power on the Security Council, wouldn't have to worry about the nukes being used against them, either. (In fact, I think there were some scientists and others who proposed just this sort of thing back in the 1940's and later, but because of the continuing spectre of Communism, they were ignored. Without that spectre...) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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