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Originally Posted by noodle
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!!!
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The military commander's "what if" (i.e. What if we attack on the ground) were what if's, and gave a large range of estimates of casualties. The MOST CONSERVATIVE of those estimates was over twice the numbers of deaths as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Again with "something else"
We just haven't seen what that "something else" is...