[49188] in Cypherpunks
Re: Sometines ya just gotta nuke em-and nuke em again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jordan Hayes)
Sun Feb 4 14:59:09 1996
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 11:56:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Jordan Hayes <jordan@Thinkbank.COM>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From tallpaul@pipeline.com Sun Feb 4 11:47:09 1996
When I read the first post by T.C. May on the mass nuclear
bombings of civilians I thought his post was: a) off-topic
for the cypherpunks list and; b) wrong.
By the way, the certainly *is* a crypto-relevance to this thread,
since much of what we knew at the time about the Japanese high
command and their motivations and actions was learned through MAGIC
intercepts. It also has quite a lot to do with how these intercepts
(and related documents) were released over time; the intentionality
of what was released, when, and how shows a good deal about how
this subject was managed by our government.
Since I practically started it (by calling into question Tim's
recitation of the story invented about the 500,000 Americans "saved"
by dropping the bomb), I'd like to call on those who are interested
in it to do some more searching, reading, analyzing and talking.
But not here.
Thanks,
/jordan
