Actually, the Japanese were already trying to find a way to surrender at the time. The Soviet Union invading would’ve been the last straw, the US was trying to get in a bomb first because they didn’t want the Soviet Union to have a victory. And to them, that was worth hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Twice as many Japanese would have died had we invaded.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 7 months ago
MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
And so many allies
livus@kbin.social 7 months ago
Those weren't the only choices.
The bomb could have been used on a military target rather than an overwhelmingly civillian population.
stoy@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
True, if you don’t know about it, look up the bat bomb.