Seems my figures might be off when I say "five million lives" were saved by the dropping of the bombs.
From Wikipedia:
Casualty predictions varied widely, but were extremely high for both sides: depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians resisted the invasion, estimates ran into the millions for American casualties and the tens of millions for Japanese casualties.
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