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To: combjelly who wrote (333354)4/16/2007 3:14:04 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570977
 
Maybe. Who knows what would have happened if we had only nuked one? Or not nuked a city at all, but say, an island off of Tokyo.


Either way, I am quite sure they would have surrendered. In fact, I am quite sure they would have surrendered after nuking just Hiroshima.

Do you think it was easier to nuke Japanese cities as opposed to German ones because they didn't look so much like us?



To: combjelly who wrote (333354)4/18/2007 11:25:26 AM
From: TimF  Respond to of 1570977
 
Even after nuking two of their cities (and bombing the hell out of the rest of them with conventional and incendiary bombs, and blockading the country, each of which caused more death than the nukes) there was a lot of opposition to surrender including an unsuccessful coup attempt by those opposed to the surrender.

Fortunately this wasn't necessary.

en.wikipedia.org

fas.org


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