“Threat To Europe”
Sir, —That torpedoes had been built in Nagasaki does not justify its description, and that of Hiroshima, by V. Wilkinson as naval bases. That “the bombing ended the war, thereby saving an estimated half a million allied lives and probably millions of Japanese” is not true. Japan was by then almost on the verge of collapse. The use of the atom bomb on these cities was less from military reasons than for political considerations —to prevent the declaration of war on Japan by Russia. Posterity will view the use of the atom bomb without warning on these cities, causing huge civilian casualties with the same horror as it will regard the present milliards spent in trying to reach the moon (partly for military prestige), while from half to two-thirds of the world’s population are on a starvation level.—Yours, etc., SETH NEWELL. April 16, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31656, 17 April 1968, Page 10
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