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Originally posted by Mr_Wizard
Not true, the US was capable of defeating Japan in WWII without the use of the atomic bomb but the price that would be paid in the lives of our soldiers during an invasion of the main island of Japan would have been to high. That is the reason the bomb(s) were dropped.
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No, that's not true either. The US government had already beaten Japan, and the Japanese offered surrender in the Spring of 1945, with the caveat that the emperor not be put on trial, but left on the throne. Truman said, "unconditional surrender", and when the Japanese refused, Truman commited the ultimate war crime of nuking civilians.
It's a travesty that has yet to be equaled in the history of mankind.