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Well, I wonder why this comes up. After all, dropping the atomic bomb didn't make the Japanese surrender, it was dropping the second one that did it. So why would someone think that they were already on the edge and the war could have been won without atomic weapons OR significant casualties. The death rates on the Pacific islands were horrific - often with Japanese soldiers fighting to the last few men. Extrapolate that to the main islands, and then consider that at that point America had already endured nearly 5 years of war, rationing, and casualties all for causes that were oceans away. Hindsight may be 20/20, but this position is not even that!
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