Korean apts. look like 'exploding twin towers'.

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And they are not fucking facts, they are projected estimates. Those are not facts.

Operation Overlord, look it up...hell look at the casualties from Guadalcanal and Okinawa and tell me invading Japan proper would have been easy or cost less lives that the bombs.

Out of 36,200 soldiers on the ground for Japan 31,000 were KIA in Guadalcanal, only 1,000 were captured...at Okinawa a Japanese force of 117,000 men suffered north of 95,000 KIA, only between 7,400-10,755 captured and the mass suicides of the civilians which numbered somewhere between 42,000 and 150,000.


Oh but invading Japan proper (which has never been done) would have been nothing compared to the 2 bombs we dropped....I like to dream too miles, but the guilt you push off on The Allies is unwarranted and undeserved. It was war, we told Japan what we would do, we fucking showed them the tests and they took it....not once, but TWICE before surrender and yet an invasion would have saved lives eh


The only problem with the bomb was that nobody knew about fallout and how that would affect everyone.

I literally could not care less about your and Miles argument, but the issue about the atomic bomb is not nearly so black and white.

Japan was in extreme turmoil near the end of the war. I believe one leadership coup of sorts had already been attempted and I also believe the governing body was split regarding whether or not to surrender or keep fighting. I know a lot of historians feel that Japan would have given up without the bombs being dropped. If highly educated professionals feel that way, it certainly isn't '100% fact'.

That being said, the nuclear bombs were no worse than the firebombings that the Allies had been using against both the Japanese and the Germans, it's just the nature of the bomb itself and the age which it ushered in which are so shocking.