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“War Without Mercy on a Treacherous Foe”December 10, 1941 World War II bombing casualties Dresden 18,000-40,000 Hiroshima 70,000-80,000 Nagasaki 45,000-70,000 Tokyo more than 100,000 Nagasaki, August 1945:“Like a graveyard with no tombstone left standing” “Japan was defeated and… dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary. I thought our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face.’ The secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reasons I gave for my quick conclusions.” Secretary of War Henry Stimson “No effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the bomb.” “A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. One begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond mens control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which societys roots are nourished.” Bruce Catton American B-52 in Operation Rolling Thunder, 1967 What is the difference between throwing 500 babies into a fire and throwing fire from aeroplanes on 500 babies? There is none.” --British Captain Philip S. Mumford, 1937 Both Sides Agree Not to Bomb Civilians Washington Post headline September 3, 1939 USAAF General Curtis LeMay“There are no innocent Jap civilians.” “Another popular fallacy is to suppose that flying machines could be used to drop dynamite on an enemy in time of war.” --William H. Pickering, 1908 “When my brother and I built the first man-carrying flying machine we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars practically impossible.”  --Orville Wright, 1917 1903 Wright brothers’ first f