+ Outside View: Merits of a nuclear alliance

+ Outside View: Merits of a nuclear alliance
Tokyo (UPI) Aug 27, 2009 - From early summer of 1945, Japan's defeat in the war against the allied nations led by the United States was a sure thing; it was only a matter of "when." Having experienced the Tokyo Air Raid in March -- in which U.S. bombs killed about 120,000 people, most of them civilians -- and the Battle of Okinawa in April, May and June -- in which 220,000 Okinawa people and military personnel ... more

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