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In 1945, in midst of the bombing of Tokyo and Japanese cities, Sec of War Stimson persuaded Truman to remove Kyoto--seat of Japanese culture--from the targets for the A-bomb. He had read about Kyoto in a magazine and felt that would be going "too far." Nagasaki took its place.
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....targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
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In 1944, as German army faced Allied advances, Hitler ordered that Paris should only be abandoned as a "field of ruins." Explosive charges were installed in all the city's great monuments, but the commanding officer refused to carry out the order.
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