[HBR] Loctals & Octals

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

The Pacific war was expected to last much longer and with horrendous 
losses. All of a sudden it ended with a couple of atomic bombs. Those 
bombs may have taken a huge toll in life where they were used but saved 
several millions of lives on both sides of the conflict.

73,

Bill  KU8H


On 11/23/2014 10:29 AM, Martin Marris wrote:
> Off-topic, but I've often wondered: Why is it that WWII, in particular,
> ended with such a huge surplus of war matériel?
>
> I know that by mid-1945 the U.S. economy was really roaring with production
> of war goods, but still, why such an extraordinary surplus?
>
> Did policy-makers think the war was going to last a lot longer than it did?
> Perhaps the very few people who knew about the atom bomb didn't want to give
> any indication that they had anything "special" available that could shorten
> the war?
>
> (We don't hear much about a huge "World War One" war-surplus bulge, for
> instance. Maybe there was one....)
>
> Maybe my query is a dumb question....
>
> Martin, KB1WSY
>
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