Quote:I never said it help Japan win the war, I said they got positive or correct intel which helped the Japanese to some degree.


Ultimately they lost, of course, but had we not dropped those bombs it would have been a longer war. The Japanese were not going to surrender without a major event happening to completely demoralize them. But that's another subject.

Most military analysts from that time predicted that a full scale invasion of the Japanese mainland would have led to casualties in the tens of millions for the Japanese, and well over a million American casualties. It would have made D-Day and Stalingrad look like picnics in comparison...

 

Of course, that's something that the PC police don't want you to know. I don't believe in the use of nuclear weapons, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki really pegs the question of whether the ends truly justified the means.

 

 

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ope...wnfall.htm

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