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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (333898)4/19/2007 6:05:55 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1571932
 
Frankly the bombing of the two cities had little to do with retribution and all to do with the calculated outcome of an American invasion of Japan and the resulting expected loss of American lives. So Truman traded soldiers' lives for Japanese lives instead.

Not really. An invasion would likely have killed more Japanese then the nukes did.

Even doing neither, and continuing conventional and incendiary bombing, combined with the blockade for more than a short period would have likely killed more Japanese then the nukes did.

The nukes killed a lot of people, but they had more shock value per death then the methods that the Japanese where more used to (and which killed a lot more in total then the nukes)
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