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Old 08-07-11, 12:57 AM   #90
Highbury
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Why should the Americans feel guilty?

Sure it was the US Government/Military that ultimately made the call to use it, and the planes had a US crews and stars on the wings but the bombs inside had uranium from Canada and South America as well as the US. Plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb came in part from Canada as well. Besides the US based research teams, research also came from Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, and Tube Alloys in the UK. In the labs in all these countries actually making the bombs there were people of practically every nationality in Europe.

Think whatever you want about the ethical argument, but making it out as a case of "mass murdering Americans" is just ridiculous. It is about time this thread died for the year, so maybe we can make the argument more civil in 2012, huh?
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