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Japan didn't need to surrender. So no need for nuking their cities. Lots of countries hate the US, and it's no wonder, because we do horrible things to other countries, usually for profit. But that doesn't mean that every country that wants to destroy us needs to surrender to us. To keep our gravy trains running, we need only prevent other countries from stopping those trains. For example, as long as Iran cannot stop stolen Iraqi oil profits from flowing into ExxonMobil's coffers, Iran need not surrender to us, even though they despise us and would love to destroy us for toppling their democracy and fueling the Iran-Iraq war, among other misdeeds. Japan was not a significant threat to the US when we nuked their cities. Nuking them ended the small threat they still were, but it was clearly overkill.

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What if it could be proven beyond argument that by using 2 atomic bombs in WWII the less people, on both sides, were killed.

In other words about 200,000 Japanese were killed by the two atomic bombs. What if not using those two atomic bombs resulted in 400,000 Japanese and 100,000 Americans being killed from the continued fighting.

Is the use of the atomic bombs in the above scenario still absolutely wrong.


btw...200,000 killed by the atomic bombs, but over 300,000 killed by the firebombing of Tokyo and other major Japanese cities.

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Wow! This thread sure took an unintended turn. For what it's worth, much greater minds than ours have pondered and debated these type issues for a long time.
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And maybe Japan didn't really lose the war after all .......



General Motors, a symbol of American industrial might and the world's top seller of motor vehicles since Herbert Hoover was president, has finally been caught by a foreign rival.
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GM conceded Wednesday that Toyota Motor Corp. pulled even last year, each of them selling about 9.37 million vehicles, in another sign that the balance of corporate power is shifting from West to East.
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It's the first time GM has been anything other than the exclusive global sales leader since 1931......
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