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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
The documentary "Fog of War" pointed out that at the time the US droped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima/Nagasaki, American fire-bombing had already killed 20-50% of the population of Japan's 20 largest cities. Some individual firebombing campaigns alone killed 100,000's of Japanese (supposedly 100,000 alone were killed in Tokyo on March 9, 1945).
The notion that the a-bomb had to be dropped to avoid a ground invasion seems a bit weak when the US was already burning Japan to the ground before the a-bomb's were dropped. Firebombing killed a lot more people than the a-bomb's.
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Does that mean they would have just kept firebombing them to get them to surrender? If so, wouldn't that have been even worse?