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Originally Posted by theking
The Japanese were showing zero signs of surrendering at the time the bomb was dropped and we were preparing to invade Japan and up to 1,000,000 casualties was predicted for us and millions more for the Japanese. The bomb saved lives and BTW the A Bomb did not kill as many people as our fire bombings had killed in Japan and in Germany.
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Robbie is right, I'm learning about it in history class right now. They knew Japan was going to fold but Truman wanted to bomb them anyway to send a message to Stalin.