>>Do you have any clue what was happening in Japan at that time?
Yes, but so did Szilard and he still said what I quoted. No use trying to turn this into a story about me: if you want to compare his comments about nukes with comments about carpet bombing, you don't need me for that.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
