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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 14:32:48 -0600 (CST)
From: "Alan Spector" <spector@calumet.purdue.edu>
Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu
Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu
To: revs@csf.colorado.edu, okamoto@shudo-u.ac.jp
>From Alan Spector:

To the REVS network:


The following message was sent to me personally in response to my comments
about war crimes, Bosnia, and Vietnam.  I believe that the writer of the
following comments makes excellent points.  I confined my comments to
Vietnam because I was actively involved in opposing that war and because it
is not always possible to address every issue in every message. The bombings
of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, (and non-nuclear saturation bombing of other
civilian targets) are, in my opinion, other examples of war crimes.
Sometimes I ask my students: "Do you think any country will ever use nuclear
weapons against another country?"  Some say yes, many say no.  Then I point
out to them that someone already HAS "dropped the bomb"----
-----used nuclear weapons against civilians....the U.S. government did.
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Below is the text of the message that commented on my original message:

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<<You say, "The vast majority of people killed were unarmed civilians, killed
by the U.S. forces" and refer to Vietnam.  I commend your critical
reflection on the Vietnam War.  But I wonder why Hiroshima and Nagasaki
were not mentioned.  In the Nuclear Age the primary victims of nuclear war
are civilians.  The holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a witness to
this fact.  I only wish that critical scholars like you and those who are
connected to REVS pay more attention to the nuclear issue.


Mitsuo Okamoto >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
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