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GreatLight432
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Actually, believe it or not, both atom bombs were necessary. The ship from which the Enola Gay(hurhurhur, etc.) was supplied/launched? from was sunk soon afterwards by a Jap submarine.
Japs still had naval power, which would have made a problem for any landing force. Another problem...well, just look at the body count for our side when we took Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
On top of that, back then, the Japanese HAD NO WORD FOR SURRENDER! If not the people, then the military was sure as hell ready to fight to the death(it was mostly the military keeping going that long anyway). It took the emperor a good long time to convince the military to surrender after the second bomb.
Sometimes I wonder if there WAS another way to get them to surrender...but I think it would have cost us dearly.
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