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08-07-2009, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Yuna7780 View Post
Ahhh. I completely forgot about that. But, I think they were instilled with fear, but weren't sure of other bombs.

But even if we didn't have the second bomb, I think the Japanese would have still gone downhill to surrendering in the near future.
I think they would have held out for quite a few more months, and with the fighting going on daily and the USSR declaring war and invading Manchuria, and the planned invasion of Kyushu by the US, the end result would have been many more dead people after months more of the war than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.


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