British gas have this thing. We call it home care. We'll fix all sorts and its unlimited repairs.

Expert engineers will solve the upset of boilers not boilering or taps that won't wet.

Electrics playing tricks or a pipe that's broke. We're there for everyone. Even blue furry folk.

Your home won't feel booby-trapped. It'll feel just like new.

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per repair. In 1945, the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, killing 70,000 people in Hiroshima

on August the 6th, and 40,000 in Nagasaki on August 9th.

Eight decades later, the world still debates whether American President Harry Truman

and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were morally right to use

the weapons against civilians, even if the direct result was to end the most terrible war

in human history.

Truman and Churchill certainly had no qualms.

As Churchill recalled in triumph and tragedy, the sixth volume of his World War II memoirs, the decision

was never even an issue. There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around

our table, he wrote, nor did I ever hear the slightest suggestion that we should do otherwise.

Truman, Churchill, and their advis advisors had lived through six agonizing

years of war. They had the best information available. You would think that would entitle them

to the benefit of the doubt, that they had made the right decision. In his memoirs, a year of decisions,

Truman wrote that he believed an invasion of Japan would have cost half a million

American casualties. Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of State James Burns

judged that to be conservative, with both estimating the total casualties at one million.

It's not hard to understand why they came to these conclusions. The assault on Iwojima in February 1945 came at the price of nearly 7,000 US Marines killed

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