Quote:Gen. Anami declared "100,000,000 dead in defense of Japan!"
Yeah, we're big on slogans, too.
The submarine blockade had essentially ended Japan's capacity to conduct a war. By July, 1945 carrier-based aircraft attacked Kure on the Inland Sea. The handful of ships there were essentially immobile because of a lack of fuel caused by the previously mentioned sub campaign and an equally effective mining operation. The Japs were helpless. Had they not surrendered Anami might have gotten his wish.... through famine and frostbite in the coming winter.
So Hiroshima and Nagasaki were little more than state-sanctioned mass murders....... just like Dresden.
