LDarrell t1_j99x2ou wrote on February 20, 2023 at 10:59 AM

Reply to comment by TinKicker in Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

You are not addressing the death and destruction that an invasion of the Japanese main island would have caused. The estimate is that a million death would have occurred had there been an invasion and most of those deaths would have been Japanese civilians caught in the middle of all the fighting.

After the Hiroshima bomb the Japanese military was not interested in surrendering. After the Nagasaki bomb, they were still not interested in surrendering and it was only the intervention of the Emperor that caused the Japanese Military to lay down their arms. An invasion of the Japanese mainland would have been a blood bath on all sides.

Again, please do not dismiss the millions of people (military and especially civilians) killed either directly or indirectly by the war started by Japan and its allies.

TinKicker t1_j99xng0 wrote on February 20, 2023 at 11:07 AM

Ummm….I think you have me confused with someone who disagrees with you.

(And the one million casualties is what the US calculated it would cost the American military in an invasion of the Japanese home islands. The Japanese estimated it would cost 20 million of its own civilian population in defending against such an invasion…a cost they were actively preparing to absorb.)

LDarrell t1_j99y1yj wrote on February 20, 2023 at 11:13 AM

I apologize if I have misunderstood you