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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

All those casualty estimates you see thrown around in regards to an invasion of Japan are bullshit, its ignorant amateur historians who believe anything they read.

The military estimates were not anywhere close to the millions people claim.

They dropped the bomb to see what it would do, it was an act of terrorism not war.

Then why'd the Americans start mass making huge quantities of Purple Hearts beyond anything needed up to thst date?

And there were loads of estimates of enormous casualty figures far in excess of the two nukings, not to mention that additional traditional bombing campaigns would've killed even more, too.

The experiment of it was part of the equation as well, hence why there were cities previously left untouched, but that adds more credence for it being clear that policy planners flat out didn't believe that the Japanese were close to surrendering.

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Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less.