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Show Not Much Difference The use of the atomic bomb, with its wholesale destruction of persons and property, has called iorth the usual crop of complaints from the custodians of the human hu-man conscience. There is, no doubt, a reluctance on the part of civilized individuals individ-uals to encompass the mass de-structoin de-structoin of other people, regardless regard-less of who they happen to be, Nevertheless, in the development of modern warfare, it is obvious that the industrial machine of a nation represent a prime target and that destruction of the means of production is a legitimate legiti-mate military obpective. While the atomic bomb may kill and destroy on a wholesale basis, rather than on the retail level, there is not much difference differ-ence between the destruction of a city and its people by one bomb and a similar result achieved by one thousand bombs delivered in one hundred raids. |