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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
Multiply that 'thousands' with 140+ plus the wounded plus the side effects...
Anyway, a third option would be to drop bombs outside the cities to demonstrate the power. 2 bombs, or more, would scare the shit out of them and it would demonstrate they really had the bombs. If they did not surrender, THEN they could do more drastic bombings. Nagasaki was strategic, but Hiroshima was slaughter.
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Do you read any history books at all. The top military officials in Japan did NOT want to surrender after we dropped two nukes on their cities. Now why in the world would you think they would have done differently if they were dropped outside cities. Look up some of the island campaigns and see just how many were killed on both sides.
Believe me attacking the homeland would have been much much worse.