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Was there actually a need to drop the nukes on japan

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    #32
    borisbullrunner
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    of course there was a need. 1. it was a test to see the awesome power of such a weapon. 2. the japs would never have surrendered unless their economy, and the home islands were compromised dramatically. and 3. the loss of life was japanese and not allied, which is the whole reason for it.

    obviously the leaders of the free world weighed it up, and even if the a-bomb killed 1 hundred million japanese the americans still wouldve dropped it because it'd be better than the loss of a million more allied soldiers


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    Manic Moran
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    Today's is on Japan. "A look at Japan's fight for survival in 1944, as the country was crippled by shortages of food, metals and fuel".

    What, kindof like the British in 1940/1941? Deprivation didn't make the British surrender, even if there was harsh rationing which continued for a few years after the war ended, and they went as far as to go back to building aircraft out of wood and not metal due to shortages.

    To give an example of the expected casualties, The US military did not mint any new Purple Hearts for the rest of the century. They had stocked up so many to cover the expected casualties in the invasion of the Home Islands that they lasted all the way through Korea, Vietnam and there are still a tens of thousands in stock.

    http://hnn.us/articles/1801.html


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