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How do you know?

Bobby. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2022 at 12:37pm:



Yet another revisionist.  
The invasion of the Japanese home islands was planned for November 1945, commencing with the invasion of Kyushu (Operation Olympic), followed by the invasion of Honshu in March 1946 (Operation Coronet). The initial estimate predicted 250,000 casualties in the first phase of these operations alone, with the most pessimistic predictions estimating that the war would continue until 1948, with the final number of casualties in the millions.

The use of the bombs was entirely justified.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2022 at 12:45pm:



Perhaps the number crunchers figured that the cost of retaining such a massive fleet just to contain the Home Islands outweighed the cost of bombing - using bombs they'd already spent billions on.  If the US/UK had simply declared it over without surrender and occupation and withdrawn the fleets, the Japanese would have sold it to their suffering people as a Modern Kamikaze divine wind that saved Nippon..... and nothing would have changed.  Troops from China would have come home and off they'd go again.

The only real option was unconditional surrender and occupation - one way or the other.  Better to use the bombs and secure surrender than kill a million boys getting the same result.

Bias_2012 wrote on Aug 7^th, 2022 at 2:00pm:



But the Yanks hanged many of the military leaders.








https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Tojo


Tojo was sentenced to death on November 12, 1948, and executed by hanging 41 days later on December 23, 1948, a week before his 64th birthday.[113] Before his execution, he gave his military ribbons to one of his guards; they are on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.[114] In his final statement, he apologised for the atrocities committed by the Japanese military and urged the American military to show compassion toward the Japanese people, who had suffered devastating air attacks and the two atomic bombings.[115]

After his execution, Tojo's body was cremated and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean approximately 30 miles (48 km) east of Yokohama from a US Army aircraft on the afternoon of 23 December, along with the ashes of six other Class-A war criminals.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2022 at 1:14pm:


It was enough that the Allies estimated it would cost the lives of 1.5 million soldiers to defeat them. Not exactly pathetic.

freediver wrote on Aug 7^th, 2022 at 4:08pm:



1.5 million?

Only if Japan was invaded.
Japan is an island nation that was devastated by war -
they would have had to eventually come to peace terms.
It was matter of 6 months to a year perhaps.

I think Truman nuked them more as a lesson for Stalin
in case he had ideas of overrunning western Europe.

freediver wrote on Aug 7^th, 2022 at 9:36pm:



Hi FD,
there is plenty of revisionist literature for you to read on the web
if you want to go into it in great detail.
I don't have exact figures but anyone in this area is speculating
including me - I admit it.

Question -
if you were Truman would you have slept soundly in your bed
after ordering those 2 nuclear attacks?

Brian Ross wrote on Aug 7^th, 2022 at 9:48pm:



That's not very Christian of you Brian.
Would Jesus have ordered those attacks?