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The end of dropping the bomb seems, from the evidence, to have been not winning the war, which was already assured, not saving lives, for it was highly probable no American invasion would be necessary, but the aggrandizement of American national power at the moment and in the postwar period.  For this end, the means were among the most awful yet devised by human beings – burning people alive, maiming them horribly, leaving them with radiation sickness, which would kill them slowly and with great pain.

I remember my junior-high-school social studies teacher telling the class that the difference between a democracy like the United States and the “totalitarian states” was that “they believe that the end justifies any means, and we do not.”  But this was before Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

- Howard Zinn – Declarations of Independence

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