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Old 03-12-2004, 03:04 PM   #7 (permalink)
The_Dunedan
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Lebell is correct on this one. Not only were the Japanese arming their entire civillian population and producing primitive ballistic weapons for deployment against allied vessels. No Surrender was the policy of the Japanese govornment, as well as a large portion of the civillian population.

However, what nobody ever talks about is the amount of -Japanese- lives saved by the bomb. Prior to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US/British/Soviet plan for the invasion of the Home Islands called for massive airial bombardment with CHEMICAL weapons. It was believed that this was the only way to reduce the expected massive resistance from the freshly-armed civillian population, and was expected to cause a -minimum- of 6,000,000 deaths. It was believed that the fighting following the actual invasion of the Home Islands would claim an additional 1 Million Americans, 1 Million Russians, 100,000 British, and a minimum of 1 Million additional Japanese, on -top- of those who had already died in the chemical bombardment a week or so earlier.

So, add it all up.
Home Islands Invasion:
6,000,000 civillians dead from chemical weapons
2.1 Million dead Allied soldiers
1 Million dead Japanese combatants.
Total: 9 Million dead.

And these were the -lowball- estimates. The much more extensive estimates of the Soviets and British ran into the 12-15 Million dead range, according to B. H. Liddel Hart.
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