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Thank God For The Atom Bomb | PIRATE WIRES EP#7
Pirate Wires
Thank God for the Adam Bomb
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In an essay called Thank God for the Adam bomb by Paul Fussell, he argues that dropping the atom bomb could have saved millions of lives. He says people don't realize how brutal and vicious the Japanese fought during World War II. The U.S. military was already preparing for a land invasion when they dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. "We're looking at really a situation where casualties would have been somewhere between I think three million is kind of like the absolute ground floor"
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