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To: longnshort who wrote (47759)7/6/2013 6:25:43 PM
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He says -

"They had no planes or ships left to challenge us. We could have just laid offshore and picked them apart until they surrendered.

And if they did feel a need to drop the bomb to make a point, they should have done it on a military installation, not on defenseless women and children."

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They couldn't really challange us any more, but if we layed offshore and didn't do anything eventually it would be a risk that they could (and even without us doing that they where still trying, even if it resulted in a lot more of them then us dieing almost every time), and even if they couldn't we would have to stay mobilized for ever to stop it. Also they where still in China and elsewhere, not just back in their own islands.

If by "picked them off" he means keep the conventional bombing and attacking their shipping, then even without an invasion or an atomic bomb drop, more Japanese would have died.

As for dropping it on a military installation, even then Japan was densely populated, a lot of civilians would have been killed. Also we had a very small supply of bombs. I believe we only had one other bomb. Its not like we could focus on targets with few civilians and have the same level of shock by just attacking more targets.

Even with the nuking of cities (and with the USSR declaring war and attacking at about the same time), they almost didn't surrender. There was a coup to try to prevent the surrender.
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