hiroshima's_koreans andru235 forgotten by the american public is the fact that 25,000 koreans (from the north) were killed in the hiroshiman blast, and 10,000 in the nagasakian blast. vengeance is one of north korea's nuclear motivations. can the u.s. sit in judgement after justifying two wars as vengeance for 2,500 killed in those towers? apparently we can, and will. *sigh*. /\doublethink/\doublethink/\doublethink/\ p.s. if you think japan was still a threat in 1945 it is time to get off your duff and do some independent research and/or thinking! hmmm...japan vs. the u.s., russia, and great britain. i wonder how that will turn out. japan offered over 20 conditional surrenders after VE day. why? because it had lost all its overseas possessions, was out of mineral reserves (thus minimizing armament production) and was facing mass starvation. there is only one nation whose school textbooks overlook this...guess who! hint: same nation that dropped the bombs. 050501 ... dandy so then why were they a target? because they weren't "important" "globally"? Or it could have just as easily beem mauritania or polynesia or argentina. It had to be somewhere? 050502 ... andru235 it was a show of force, perhaps? but then, couldn't that have been done without bloodshed? (could have bombed sakhalin and proved the same point to russia) or is it profit margin? building those things = huge profits for armaments companies, profits extracted from the taxpayers who live in fear of what their tax money has been used to build... who knows? at any rate, the dropping of those bombs had little to do with defeating an enemy already reduced to shambles. the deception that surrounds those bombs ought indicate the deception surrounding the bombs now. 050502 what's it to you? who go blather from