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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Japanese were preparing to fight to death; the death of every Japanese man, woman, and child.

You have to [b]view the bombs’ use through only one lens:[/b]  the lens of reality.

The fact is:  the bombs saved countless lives.[/quote]
I know that is our historical perspective and what we say, but how is it portrayed through Japan's historical lenses. [/quote]

The Japanese were not going to surrender after the bombings. They were planning on bring troops back from China to continue to fight. That hope ended when 1.5 million Russians invade Manchuria on August 9th. The Russian rolled over the Japanese in Manchuria. The night of August 14-15 before the emperor was going to surrender a coup known as the Kyūjō Incident stormed the palace to stop the surrender.

There is a famous Japanese fighter pilot who survived the war. He has said he and most others would have done the same thing. It was war. The Japanese killed over 30 million civilians during the war.

Remember the fire bombing kill many times more vs the atomic bombs. The estimated for the firebombing are 250,000 to 900,000. 
Hiroshima	Nagasaki atomic bombings
Pre-raid population	255,000	195,000
Dead	                          66,000	39,000
Injured	                  69,000	25,000
 Vs 
The firebombing of Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945, is estimated to have killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people and left about a million homeless.
Does it really matter if you died because of a nuclear bomb detonation or burn to death in a firestorm?

An invasion of Japan casualty estimates. Allied 250,00 to million military with 5-10 million Japanese(military and civilian). This does not include the wide spread famine that would have started by September/October of 1945. That would have been another 7-10 million by the end of 1946. This was only avoided by the US shipping massive amounts of food in after surrender. The ruling military class did not give a sh#t about the Japanese civilians.[/quote]
Yes - all true.

It is also true we had a 3rd atom bomb ready to go:

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I34pxr23Nhw[/youtube][/quote]

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