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Originally Posted by cridgit001
Since we are throwing out "what if" senarios, I want to propose this. Was Japan better off in the long run by dropping the nukes or would have it been better to do a full scale land invasion?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki was actually a bless for both the japanese and americans. A full scale invasion would have resulted into widespread misery all around Japan and a lot more casualties.
Even better for the japanese, the japaneses used the atomic bombs to sound like "victims" of the war. Even now, people say things like "poor japaneses who got nuked"
The incendiary raid on Tokyo in March 1945 caused more casualties than the 2 atomic bombs combined.