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To: RealMuLan who wrote (12339)6/17/1999 8:37:00 PM
From: Andy Thomas  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
>>China had over 11 million people dead in WWII. And Japan was defeated because of the resistance by Chinese people not because of the two A-bombs the US had dropped, although the nuclear bombs did save some American' lives for sure, at the expense of Japanese civilians. Geez, your guys stupidity can never fail to amuse me. <<

I did know not that Chinese losses were that high, but it certainly seems believable.

As for the A-bomb, I've always been suspcious of the party line that an invasion of Japan would have cost a million american casualties. An invasion of Japan probably would have cost that many casualties, but what people fail to understand is that Japan would have been starved out in fairly short order as the Autumn of 1945 approached.

I still hold to my pet theory that the real reason for the dropping of the A-bomb was to demonstrate US power to the Soviets, and get them to stop their occupation of Manchuria.

FWIW
Andy
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