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Statue of Mary that survived Nagasaki nuclear blast to visit US for first time (Catholic Caucus)
cnsblog ^ | April 14, 2010 | Diogenes

Posted on 04/14/2010 3:08:51 PM PDT by NYer

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To: aruanan
Here's about the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing:

The cities were chosen because they had been relatively untouched during the war. The Target Committee wanted the first bomb to be "sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally recognized when publicity on it was released."

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Unlike many other bombing raids, the goal for this raid had not been a military installation but rather an entire city.

In Dresden, from a British site:

My father was one of the "anonymous RAF meteorological officers (who) finally sealed Dresden's fate".

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Normally, crews were given a strategic aiming point - anything from a major factory in the middle of nowhere to a small but significant railway junction within a built-up area. The smaller the aiming point and the heavier the concentration of housing around it, the greater would be the civilian casualties - but given that the strike was at a strategic aiming point those casualties could be justified.

Only at the Dresden briefing, my father told me, were the crews given no strategic aiming point. They were simply told that anywhere within the built-up area of the city would serve.

He felt that Dresden and its civilian population had been the prime target of the raid and that its destruction and their deaths served no strategic purpose, even in the widest terms; that this was a significant departure from accepting civilian deaths as a regrettable but inevitable consequence of the bomber war; and that he had been complicit in what was, at best, a very dubious operation.

Bombing of Dresden

The people who introduced the notion of targetign entire cities were Charles Portal of the British Air Staff and Air Marshall Arthur Harris. Others, from Churchill down went along with some reluctance (see the entire page cited above).

The justifications, such as those we've seen here, come from the eye-for-an-eye moral philosophy, incompatible with Christianity.

41 posted on 04/16/2010 5:28:54 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex
Here's about the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing:

I heard that Nagasaki was an alternate, chosen after the primary target couldn't be located, and that the irony was that Nagasaki was one of the main Christian cities of Japan.
42 posted on 04/16/2010 5:42:53 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: John-Irish

LOL, too young to be a hippie. No, someone on the thread had my post removed (”Post 21 removed by moderator”). I guess it violated their delicate sensibilities.


43 posted on 04/16/2010 6:53:23 AM PDT by Betis70 (Go Bruins!)
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To: annalex

Sir, you make no sense.


44 posted on 04/16/2010 3:08:56 PM PDT by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Betis70

Young are you? Then you still have a lot to learn in life and in history.


45 posted on 04/16/2010 3:10:12 PM PDT by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: Chickensoup

“Provoked!’’ Good Lord.


46 posted on 04/16/2010 3:11:56 PM PDT by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: aruanan
The source fo the first quote is Hiroshima and Nagasaki article in About.com. It does nto mention that theory, but indeed, more than two cities were chosen, and it looks like the ones with clear weather were the unlicky ones.
47 posted on 04/17/2010 3:39:45 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: John-Irish

I’d be happy to answer any further questions you have on this topic.


48 posted on 04/17/2010 3:40:23 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

Whats to answer? The bombs were dropped(thank God) and the wars over, Japan lost. I don’t give a God Damn what happened to them. They deserved it. Would you like to do it all over again and have the Japanese win? Grow up.


49 posted on 04/17/2010 4:11:12 PM PDT by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: John-Irish

You said that my post made no sense and I offered, and continue to offer to explain it to you.


50 posted on 04/17/2010 6:47:35 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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