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To: Solon who wrote (13606)	5/29/2002 7:05:23 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

Re-opening an old wound. :-) The History Channel "Sworn To Secrecy" series today is on the planned invasion of Japan in WW2. The invasion and conquest of Okinawa cost 50,000 US casualties- -40% of the US force. Estimates for the actual invasion were 500K to 1 million US dead. Japanese DEAD were twice that- -100K. The current population of Japan is 277M. The current population of Okinawa is 1.3M- -about 1/200th of Japan's. Assuming the same relative population ratios existed in 1945, the invasion of Japan would have cost 200*50K = 10M US casualties. Roughly 10% of those casualties would have died, giving 1M dead. And Japanese DEAD would have been 20M. Still think The Bomb was unjustified?