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Originally Posted by Azure
Which kinda proves the point about 'saving lives' by dropping both bombs.
If Japan wasn't willing to surrender after the firebombings, or the first A-bomb....surely they would have fought to the death had the allied forces invaded.
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Pretty hard to really know given it never happened. If we look at the fact that Japan had few remaining weapons, supplies, vehicles, food, able-bodied men, veteran soldiers/leadership... I would contend that we don't know 'for sure' what would have happened. I know it's popular to claim that 'Japan definitely would have resisted to the last man, woman and child'... I personally don't see it give the sad state of affairs Japan was in at the moment.
But in history we were repeatedly cautioned against saying we 'knew what would have happened', these are just my opinions.