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  Jan210Aug. 20, 2009 - 06:05PM JST

  ...don't you all know that Japan was about to surrender when they droped the first bomb? The war was already over (even if it wasn't, why dropping a second one??). Moreover, Pearl harbor was a militarian base, while atomic bombs mostly killed CIVILIANS. I don't know if anybody should apologize at anytime. But anyway the Hydrogen bomb droppings was more a way for the US to show their power to the rest of the world, especially USSR. Even if they did not really know (and care) what would be the long term consequences. More than 100000 died immediatly because of bombs, but:

  "The A-bomb radiation kills humans in two ways: 1) high-level radiation released by explosion pierces the human body from the outside and destroys many organs simultaneously, causing death to victims, and 2) radiation from radioactive substances taken into the human body turns oxygen molecules in bodily fluid into activated oxygen, which in turn damages chromosomes in cells, resulting in diseases and subsequent death. (...) Within a few days of the bombing, many people died after exhibiting such violent symptoms as high fever, diarrhea, vomiting, bleeding from mucous membranes, vomiting blood, bloody stool, and gangrene of palatal membranes. This continued for months." (I suggest you to read these memories of a Japanese Army medical officer stationed in the Hiroshima Military Hospital http://www.wcpeace.org/Hida _ bio.htm and http://www.wcpeace.org/Hida _ memoir.htm)

  And there still is consequences today with malformations and genetic diseases. I don't say japanese militarians did not do awfull things as well. But nothing could have justified that.

  Posted in: If the government invites U.S. POWs, then it should ask the U.S. government to apologize to the victims of the atomic bombings and the air raids.

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