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...millions of casualties incurred by the clash of land armies on the Japanese mainland would be acceptable: it would be done by conventional means...
...Your Essay implies that the Japanese were not warned. This is untrue: for ten days prior to Aug. 6, U.S. bombers rained thousands of leaflets upon the Japanese mainland spelling out the consequences of continuing the war. The first bomb was followed by a three-day waiting period, during which the Japanese High Command had triple the time needed to change its mind; when no reply was forthcoming, the second bomb was unleashed...
Other nations are not far behind. On the Chinese mainland, Fan Li's descendants have dotted the countryside with so many fishpond cooperatives that their annual production of carp and related fish (1.5 million tons) nearly equals the total U.S. catch. The Israelis, who have extensive breeding pools, learned that by injecting mullets with pituitary hormones they could cause the fish to spawn in captivity. Ordinarily the mullet -a popular tropical food fish-will spawn only in open water. Similar projects are underway on Taiwan, in India and at Hawaii's privately run Oceanic Institute, where scientists have...
...cholera pandemic is no sudden development. It started in Indonesia in 1935, was confined there for nearly three decades before jumping to the mainland in 1961. Then it spread rapidly across Southeast Asia and into Taiwan and Korea. By 1964, it was on the increase in Pakistan and India, moving into Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. A year later it struck the Iranian town of Rasht on the South Shore of the Caspian Sea. From there, it jumped to Astrakhan, a Soviet city of 500,000. Now it has burst out in two more areas: Alexandria and Port Said and-after...
...counter to the threat of Hitler and the further threat that Nazi Germany might build it first. But it was not ready until after Germany had surrendered. Thus only by historical circumstance was the Bomb ever juxtaposed to an even bloodier alternative-the massive invasion of the Japanese mainland...