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MsMTM
Was there (American) collateral damage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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nikeshox
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Thank you
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Ii dntt noo yeerr noo xxxx
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kevbrint
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I am replying to the original question rather than to the "responses" that follow this question (the next three or so posts). I am quoting from an online article by Doug Long who addresses the complex questions surrounding the use of the atomic weapons at the close of WWII. In providing this quote I am assuming that by "collateral damage" you mean Allied interests, including American lives.

"At least 11 and perhaps 23 or more American prisoners of war were killed by the Hiroshima A-Bomb (Barton Bernstein, Unraveling a Mystery: American POWs Killed at Hiroshima, Foreign Service Journal, Oct. 1979; Robert Manoff, American Victims of Hiroshima, New York Times Magazine, 12/2/84, pg. 67+). The Nagasaki A-Bomb killed more than a dozen Dutch POWs and possibly some Americans who may have been in a Nagasaki POW camp (Philip Nobile, ed., Judgment at the Smithsonian, pg. 207; Barton Bernstein, ed., The Atomic Bomb, pg. 116). In addition, over 1,000 Japanese-Americans who were temporarily in Hiroshima when war between the U.S. and Japan was declared and were prevented from returning to the U.S. were killed by the Hiroshima bomb. Between 6,500 and 10,000 or more Koreans (most of whom were slave laborers), and probably several hundred Chinese, some Southeast Asian students, some British POWs, and some European priests were also killed by the two atomic blasts (John Dower, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Politics of Memory, Technology Review, Aug./Sept. 1995)."
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TruthandJustice
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THERE WEE ALSO COUNTLESS AMERICANS MOSTLY SAILORS LIKE MY FATHER WHO VISITED THESE SITES AND LATER DIED FROM CANCER .........
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THERE WERE ALSO COUNTLESS AMERICANS MOSTLY SAILORS LIKE MY FATHER WHO VISITED THESE SITES AND LATER DIED FROM CANCER .........
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Explorer72
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That is a GREAT question, one that I have never even thought about before. I honestly don't know.
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Explorer72
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Thanks for that answer. Fascinating and informative!
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