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    1. Just screened @errolmorris's The Fog of War to my political anthropology students. It was almost everyone's first encounter with US firebombing of Japan. Comparisons with US cities are devastatingly effective.
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    The video segment allows former US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to lead the viewer through the deliberate policy of destroying cities as part of the war. McNamara: "I was a part of a mechanism that in a sense recommended it." youtube.com/watch?v=SfPwR00HXM0
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      The class had read Mike Davis' "Berlin's Skeletons in Utah's Closet" on the German-Japanese Village that the US government to practice setting Axis cities on fire. Davis terms it "a crash program of incendiary experimentation on exact replicas of working-class housing."
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        Documents show the degree of detail used in preparing these experimental dwellings to optimize fire-bombing.
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          The striking percent-damage text has its origins in a 1945 issue of the Army Air Force magazine IMPACT. The story of these graphics is eloquently told by Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein here: blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/03/12/firebombs-usa/
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