Re: Kirtland Air Force Base

[Doris Woods <dorisaw@idt.net>]

William H. Geiger III wrote:
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> In <35732427.ECA43EB9@idt.net>, on 06/01/98
>    at 05:59 PM, Doris Woods <dorisaw@idt.net> said:
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> >Hi all,
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> >bill payne wrote:
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> >> Saturday 5/30/98 5:15 PM
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> >> Masanori, the book Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Gar Alperovitz
> >> presents fairly good evidence some in US government nuked Hiroshima and
> >> Nagasaki merely to impress the Russians.
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> >Carroll Quigley said in Tragedy and Hope...  they were worried the war
> >would be over with before they got their chance to use it!
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> Was this before or after they estimated that it would cost upwards of 1
> Million lives to take the Japan mainland by conventional forces?
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Well... a Leo Szilard web site ( How do you say it? Say sil'-ahrd.)
has an article where he is interviewed titled

_Leo Szilard, Interview: President Truman Did Not Understand_

http://www.peak.org/~danneng/decision/usnews.html

"After all, Japan was suing for peace."

"Today I would say that the confusion arose from considering the fake 
alternatives of either having to invade Japan or of having to use the
bomb against her cities."


I admit I only followed a link from Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe 
titled...

_Target Committee Meeting, Los Alamos, May 10-11, 1945_

to get to that particular story. 


Of more particular interest to myself is the shipment of 65% uranium
oxide,
sent from the Belgian Congo, in 1939-40. 1250 tons were sent to 
Staten Island, NY, by Edward Sengier of Union Miniere, to prevent the
Axis powers from obtaining it. p 852.

It is a _good_ book. I enjoyed it.


Doris Woods