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It wasn't the only option that was available at the time. Whether it was the right option is another discussion.

There is no word for surrender in the japanese laguage..
An invasion of the japanese home islands would have cost the americans a million men in just days,A child with a knife is a warrior..The japanese would not have surrendered,,i have studied the code of bushido...The emperor needed a way out while still saving face..the bombs gave him the exit his people needed..You will not find anywhere in the japanese language that thejapanese surrendered..The emperor ceased the war,and admitted the Americans..That is the official japanese position...

Well it reduced the American deaths. It was down to protecting American lives.
The Japanese were going to fight to the end and the Americans and the allies would ahve had a lot more casulaties.

Yes,In a BIG BIG way ,i studied the order of the divisions slted to go ashore,the first 5 divisions just vanished from the drawing board in 48 hrs.

Not the only one but the one that saved the most American lives which was paramount for a war weary world at the time.

Not the only one but the one that saved the most American lives which was paramount for a war weary world at the time.

With the saving of MANY thousands of American lives, MANY thousands of Japanese were spared as well.

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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and them misapplying the wrong remedies." --Groucho Marx

The ground invasion was a non starter,all you have to do is look up the number of american ,british and commonwealth countries leading up to the invasion to see that the bombs were the only game in town..Sorry if that sounds callous ,but i remind anyone interested,,,Google greek king pyrrus...And you will see what i mean...

I meant to say casualties..

In addition to saving many lives, Americans were so pissed at the Japanese that they no problem with bombing the daylights out of them. Not only was Pearl Harbor still on everyone's mind but the Bataam Death March and the treatment of American POW's were factors. By the time of the A bombs, dozens of POW camps had been liberated and the conditions were found to be horrible.

The first bomb is not the second one. two different discussions.

Daar is de lente, daar is de zon bijna, maar ik denk dat ze weldra zal komen. De fallus impudicus staat al in bloei En de blaadjes krijgen bomen. M'n vrouw en m'n kat zijn allebei krols en de klokken vertrekken naar Rome

Wrong. They were given time to surrender. Intentionally NOT given time to drag their feet. And the third bomb would have been dropped had they not acted immediately after the first two. Good thing they didn't know there wasn't a third bomb eh?

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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and them misapplying the wrong remedies." --Groucho Marx

It is appropriate to contend that an invasion of Japan would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, probably more Japanese than Allied military. It is also true that the Japanese were already putting out peace feelers which the Allies, for the most part, ignored. Furthermore, the development of the A-bomb cost nearly 2% of the US national economy and that kind of expenditure had to be justified somehow. Conventional bombings carried out elsewhere have caused similar numbers of casualities. What is frightening is that this was only a single bomb that created so much damage and killed so many people.