Re:The price of the Manhattan Project (2013)
by hirundo on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:28AM
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In accounting for the costs of counterfactuals I think the question is less what is possible and more what is likely. The outsized response you describe to the simple request is evidence of the strong political will for more aggressive options.
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Re:The price of the Manhattan Project (2013)
by boomboomsubban on Sunday December 09, 2018 @12:11PM
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I suspect that US military leaders would be much more hesitant to spend the lives of untold thousands of US soldiers, and a prolonged firebombing campaign would have been the most likely non-nuclear continuation. Whether that would have saved lives or cost more is impossible to guess