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Originally posted by Superbelt
I know it may seem a bit weak, but I wish that we would have dropped one of the bombs on an uninhabited pacific island first, and did it with the worlds attention.
Then threatened to drop several on various Japanese cities if we didn't secure their unconditional surrender.
I think that action of bravado may have spared both Okinawa and Nagasaki.
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While I wish things were different, Glen Seeborg (discoverer of Plutonium) signed just such a statement and still said that the Japanese still might not have surrendered and that it could be argued either way.
But consider this:
Even after vaporizing TWO Japanese cities, the war council was STILL split 3-3 on surrender. It took the Emperor to force the issue.
Two cities.
Almost 200,000 dead.
And half the council STILL wanted to keep fighting.