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   1 day ago · Support Prevention of many U.S. and Japanese military casualties There are voices which assert that the bomb should never have been used at all. I cannot associate myself with such ideas.... I am surprised that very worthy people—but people who in most cases had no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves—should adopt the position that rather than throw this bomb, we should ...

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