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Originally Posted by baddog
If we had attempted a land invasion of Japan, every Japanese citizen would have been a potential soldier . . . just look at Nazi Germany.
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Potential* being the keyword. Many would argue that Japan was on the brink of surrendering without the advent of the atomic bombs being dropped. I believe that if they had dropped the bombs on strictly military targets, rather than the goal to maximize civilian casualties, the end results would have been virtually the same (minus the mass civilian deaths).