77 years ago today...

Except they have like the highest suicide rate ever, work themselves to literal death and yet still have economic problems.

A ground war on mainland Japan would’ve been a long, drawn out bloody affair.

The bombs were the right call.

And they rebuilt both cities even better, like a month after bombs were dropped.

What about the radiation?

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estimating 6-7 figures

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That is quite a broad range of estimates. Could be 100,000, could be 9,999,999. Give or take a few 10 mill. Lol.

In hindsight it’s easy to say “how could the Japanese not surrender with the threat of an atom bomb?”

But in reality they probably heard that threat and were laughing and saying “oh yeah sure. A bomb that will level an entire city! Good luck with that!!!”

Apologies. I’m not fluent.

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In hindsight it’s easy to say “how could the Japanese not surrender with the threat of an atom bomb?”

But in reality they probably heard that threat and were laughing and saying “oh yeah sure. A bomb that will level an entire city! Good luck with that!!!”

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aug 6th Hiroshima bomb. Aug 8 the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Aug 9th the soviets invaded Japanese held Manchukuo. Hours later Nagasaki bombed. Aug 15th Japanese emperor announces surrender against the wishes of much of the military leaders. Even in the face of 2 destroyed cities and the Soviet invasion it took another week to surrender. An invasion of the Japanese mainland would have been a bloodbath that would have made Okinawa look like a picnic