(August 8, 2015 at 6:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(August 8, 2015 at 6:02 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: However, that wasn't how it worked in Japan. The military didn't care how many civilians died, or how much it fucked up the infrastructure. They wanted the entire population to die if that's what it took to save their "honor".As I said before, we would have gladly killed every single person in Japan if they hadn't surrendered. The nukes saved lives all around.
The sad thing is the "bushido code" they operated under was a bastardization of the original that was foisted on them in the early '30s.
That certainly seems to be the preferred option for the "anything but the bomb" folks. I keep asking them for a plan that caused fewer casualties, and never get one that actually does so.
