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They were desperate to end WW2 and Germany alredy surrendered and we wanted to quickly end the war and that seemed like the easiest way (but it killed mostly innocent civilians) VERY BAD
And I assume the multiple nightly firebombings with 1000 plane raids that killed roughly as many civilians per raid as one atomic bomb did, continuing for another year every night would have been less bad?!? Add to that that during the planned ground invasion 1,000,000 combat deaths on each side were anticipated and well over 10 times that civilian deaths as collateral damage would also have been less bad?!? It seems to me <200,000 atomic bomb deaths saved >>>>12,000,000 conventional deaths plus ~110,000,000 firebombing deaths over the year (assuming 3 raids per night). War is bad, but in the awful tradeoffs of real world war those 2 bomb were VERY GOOD. It is very possible that if the bombs had not been used the total population of Japan after the war would have been less than 1/10th that going into the war, with most of the deaths civilian.
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MaxineThe United States used nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945 as a means to force Japan's surrender and end World War II. The bombings were part of a strategy to minimize American casualties and bring about a swift end to the conflict.
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