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   Hello George Pope!   
      
   ** On Sunday 17.10.21 - 15:06, George Pope wrote to JOE MACKEY:   
      
    GP> Of course, Japan would use a carrier -- how else do you   
    GP> support a trans-ocean military engagement?  USA does the   
    GP> same: step one is to move at least one carrier into   
    GP> position (c.f. Baghdad, 2003)   
      
   How close was the Japanese carrier to Hawaii?   
      
    GP> I know rthis, so why didn't your high level generals & the   
    GP> CinC?   
      
   They didn't have the advantages of satellite surveillance back     
   then.  The ocean is so large.  Hard to spot a lone carrier in     
   the great Pacific ocean - even if they were expecting one     
   somewhere back in the 40s.   
      
      
    GP> I get it; once the decioson was made to employ nukes, the   
    GP> second was a done deal (tested the A-bomb, but one needs   
    GP> to see what an H-bomb does to a civilian target, too, to   
    GP> complete the reports.)   
      
   But the US conducted many such tests in the Pacific years     
   prior.  I think the news was hard to miss and ignore.   
      
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