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Originally Posted by MMM
You have a lot of "what ifs" and I don't think the facts support there would have been a vote for surrender without the Emperor stepping down earlier. They were planning to go out in battle, and were planning a final battle that would not win the war (they knew that wasn't going to happen) but would, very literally, kill as many Americans as possible. Yes, some leaders wanted to surrender. Others wanted to fight to the death. Even after the first A-bomb the surrender votes couldn't come to a majority.
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Of course this is what if's... same as the 500,000 dying... IF they attacked by land they would have lost that many.... We're not exactly going to say for sure that doing what we thing was a wiser choice would have been a success... BUT, it was definately an option to do something else and leave the A-bomb for a last resort!!!