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To: SilentZ who wrote (243776)	7/27/2005 10:53:44 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572359

"We could've blockaded Japan and ended the war. They were done." Maybe. And likely so. But there is a SF story about an alternate history where a blockade was attempted and Japan never surrendered. As a result, there were sponsored bombing missions over Japan for decades... We don't know what would have happened. It is likely that Japan would have surrendered to the USSR, but we could have blocked that. Given that the Emperor was considered to be divine, things could have gotten arbitrarily worse without expected results. Don't ever discount the power of religion when mixed with politics.

To: SilentZ who wrote (243776)	7/27/2005 10:54:22 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572359

Z, We bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima because we wanted to scare the bejeezus out of the Soviets. We could've blockaded Japan and ended the war. They were done. Yes, no, and no. Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (243776)	7/28/2005 1:46:18 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572359

We bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima because we wanted to scare the bejeezus out of the Soviets. We could've blockaded Japan and ended the war. They were done. Japan has some small islands off of Tokyo with populations around 10,000. Why didn't we nuke one of them and accomplish the same thing?