GEORGE Cowley's question "after Hiroshima, why then was a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki?" is nave.

When you have to kill a venomous snake, you don't just hit it once. You strike several times until you are sure it's dead.

My sympathies are more for the thousands of British, Dutch and Australian PoWs who worked and died on the Siam/Burma death railway.

Execution, torture, beatings and starvation were the norm. Some were members of my own regiment and I witnessed their suffering at first hand.

I have little sympathy for the dead or dying in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

FRANK JONES, Malvern.