(June 3, 2017 at 12:14 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(June 3, 2017 at 2:17 am)Tizheruk Wrote: accept Japan didn't start the war they were pressured into it
Actually those statistics have been seriously challenged. And it's been argued that statistically German would take more men . And thou nuking Berlin had been considered it was considered to awful to do . So I don't buy number of men argument . The real reason was to intimidate Russia and a general feeling that "Japan Deserved it". And even then they could have gone with one of the earlier suggestions proposed and launched it on an inhabited Island off the coast .
Berlin wasn't nuked because the Germans surrendered 2 months before the Bomb was ready.
The invasion numbers have been challenged based on the lie MacArthur told Marshall when the Chief-of-Staff said that Truman was disturbed by those numbers. Mac wanted his hero points, so he just changed them.
But let's look at the "numbers". They don't include casualties from the ten atomic bombs Marshall was to be give to use to force defensive positions on Kyushu and Honshu. Tens of thousands of GIs would have been exposed to radiation because the plan was to march our troops through the target areas as soon as the fires died down, about 30 minutes after the bombs were dropped.
Also, every adult Japanese was considered by their government to be a combatant, so the Japanese casualties would have been horrific. We also knew that school girls were to be given wood awls and told to stab the tall Americans in the groin. One or two such incidents and young ladies would have shot on sight. So the Allied casualties would have been the lesser of the two total.
