Incidently Japan in 1945 had a population of 72 million, if the attack on Okinawa was a reasonable predictor of what the Japanese population would have done on the mainland you would see around 15 to 20 million deaths in a conventional attack, mostly due to suicide, although Okinawa was a rural area so it's reasonable to assume a vastly increased rate of deaths due to bombing in urban settings.
About 300,000 died in the two bombs
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