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Originally Posted by FireFly
If the US did not drop the atomic bomb, they would have had that same attitude for quite a while and the war likely would have lasted for months longer with thousands more US casualties. By that time the world was sick of the war and it needed to end.
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Firebombing was much more devestating and effective than atomic weapons. The A-Bomb was not required to defeat the Japanese, the island was already on fire, with
massive amounts of their population destroyed. Despite your claim, the war would not have dragged on, there's nothing really to point that way. Maybe a few more months of bombing, tops, at which point they could choose to all die, or surrender. There was never a need to invade the island, they were doing just find obliterating it from the sky.