<t>I don't think I'm over-intellectualizing when I say it was more than 'kill or be killed' that motivates conflict.<br/>
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I had one grandfather fight in the Atlantic and another in the Canadian Army. I had three great uncles on my mother's side fight at Stalingrad. I understand that soliders ...

<t>I can agree that Atomic weapons were in the pipeline, but I'm still trying to push through the emotionalism of war and quoting our parents and grandparents is no way to dissect the politics, power, oil, etc of a global conflict.<br/>
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It's like the trouble in the Middle East now -- the ...

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Just reading through the posts about the high casualties of an invasion of Japan and mention of the Atomic bomb...<br/>
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I've read, and always felt, that the two A-bombs, were not used to finish off Japan. The US knew they were defeated and as someone has already said earlier ...