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To: zonder who wrote (779)	12/19/2002 12:45:36 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) of 15987

Even after the Emperor got on the radio and called for surrender, after Nagasaki, the Japanese Navy had to suppress several attempted mutinies from officers who would not accept defeat, and intended to fight on. It took the Emperor himself until the second bomb to call for surrender. And the casualties sustained in the invasion of Okinawa had been horrendous. It is as sure as most things can be that had we not dropped the atomic bombs, there would have had to have been a massive invasion involving tremendously greater loss of life on both sides.....

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