Likey I'm alive because of that decision. Dad was on Okinawa. The fission bombs made it possible for him come home... in one piece, instead of visiting Kyushu in perhaps not the best of circumstances.

A fact from Mac's biography - durng the first two years of the American occupation of Japan, more Japanese were saved by the immunization programs instituted after the war than the total number of Japanese killed in the war, including at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.



"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble