re: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Animated

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A war crime.

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Killing 150k in both bombings likely saved millions of lives from both sides if an actual invasion of Japan needed to happen. Plus another year of war.

Go look at the causality rates from Okinawa and Iwo Jima. As well as the civilian death rates of those battles.

Even after the bombs were dropped Japan still took 5 days and a failed coup before it agreed to surrender. And I think we only had enough material for a third bomb….