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strategic bombing
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Okay, so you're the armchair general, with the added benefit of fifty years of hindsight. What would you have done? How would you have avoided the kind of carnage we saw in the island battles? Can you imagine how bad that carnage would have been on the home islands?
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I'm not talking about the use of atomic bomb, which is where you seem to be going. When the Japanese saw what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they surrendered, although some elements of the military wanted to keep fighting. I wager this would happen if you dropped nuclear weapons on just about any country.
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