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04/09/06(Sun) No.6578404>>6578230 What?
Japan wasn't going to surrender to the US. The alternative to dropping the nukes was a conventional invasion, which would've cost the lives of 1 million US marines, at leats as many Japanese servicemen, and whatever Japanese civilians that got in the way.
The American president sent an ultimatum, warning the Japanese of "complete and utter destruction", and was ignored.
The Japanese military wanted to KEEP fighting after the second atomic bomb went off, but the emperor overrode them.
The atomic bombs saved more lives than they took. Between them, the death toll was 100,000 by the most liberal estimates, far less than the 2 million+ of a conventional invasion.
Fuck, man, I'm from the UK and I know that america did right by that. Where'd you learn that bullshit? |