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Originally Posted by theonlywhiteout
Crunch it's impossible to determine if diplomacy would have failed or if different tactics would have failed. The atomic bombs worked, and there's a good chance they saved Japanese and American lives: but if winning the war took dropping a nuclear bomb on 2 cities and killing hundreds of thousands of women and children there has to be at least the discussion about proportionality.
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Considering that the Japanese had shown no interest in a diplomatic out.
Combine that with Roosevelt deciding that the U.S. would accept nothing less then unconditional surrender, there was no diplomatic solution to be had.
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