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  • #16
    Personally, I'd do it because it was the right thing to do.
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    • #17
      How's this?

      Harry Truman. 1945.
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      • #18
        I would drop 1 bomb, not 2. 1 would be enough, IMO.
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        • #19
          Immediately end all bombings of population centers, and begin peace negotiations. End Lend Lease to the Soviet Union and condemn Stalin equally with Hitler.
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          • #20
            Originally posted by David Floyd
            *sigh*

            Fine, someone else throw one out there.
            Mine was a serious answer, actually.

            In 1942, the US government was taking Japanese Americans out of their homes, confiscating their property, and putting them into prison camps. The Pope didn't protest that, either.

            The difference, of course, is what happened to the inhabitants of the camps once inside... but in 1942, who knew?
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            • #21
              i wouldn't drop any on japan. I'd consider giving some sort of demonstration to a group of ambassadors or something, and threaten use on Tokyo...but I'd never do it...
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              • #22
                Sorry, I missed your answer.
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                • #23
                  Demonstrate one of the the atomic bombs to Japanese observers.
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Ramo
                    Absolutely. Hopefully, it would've triggered revolts in Southern Germany and Italy and within the Wehrmacht.
                    This isn't the Middle Ages. Papal influence was not at point where it would have caused a revolt in Germany and Italy. If the Pope had such power he would never have lost the Papal States, or would have at least been able to foster more resistance to the Italian nationalists.
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                    • #25
                      So Shi, are you a protestant now?

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                      • #26
                        The Church did help many Jews to escape and live. Hitler did say from time to time shut up or else.

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                        • #27
                          True, but also remember there were 35 million German Catholics. I would tend to think that the Pope would have at least some influence over them. Remember also that the Nazis stopped their policy of euthanasia because of the protests of the German clergy, IIRC.
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                          • #28
                            I don't mean anything large-scale when I say revolt. But I'm sure it would've had a significant effect however in terms of fostering dissent.
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Ramo
                              Hopefully, it would've triggered revolts in Southern Germany and Italy and within the Wehrmacht.
                              Why would it when his condemnation of the Nazis in encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge failed to have a similar effect.
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                              • #30
                                The Austrians, for instance, mostly Catholic, yet some of the most fanatic Nazis. I don't find it inconcievable that resistance would be sparked in at least some form.
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