Japan getting nuked in WW2…
Here are the facts:
The Japanese
civilians were drafted by the Japanese military into service to defend the
nation against an invasion by the American forces...
In practical terms the entire population was in a state of
war against our forces as demonstrated in the invasion a few months earlier of
Iwo Jima, where the Japanese fought to the last man...and were many of the
civilians killed themselves instead of surrendering to our troops. In that
battle that lasted from February 19 – March 26 of
1945, the casualties were horrendous. People today are shocked by our losses in
Iraq of about three thousand men in 7 years, but in 36 short days in Iwo Jima
we lost 6,821 dead and 19,217 wounded. The Japanese losses were
even higher, 17,845 to 18,375 dead.
So with this in mind, we now also known that the Japanese
had fortified the entire island of Japan, and that the fighting would have cost
millions of lives… think of it, house to house fighting, millions of Japanese
fighting an invasion force of about 2 million Americans... etc, etc, etc. It
would have been horrible!
So in effect the death of those tens of thousands of
Japanese DID save millions... calculations using our dead ratio of Japanese to
American showed that it would cost about 1 million American casualties....
never mind the Japanese side.
So with those numbers Truman was right on... the lesser of
two evils, Japan was not going to surrender easily...
And even AFTER the two bombs were dropped, there was a coup
by the Japanese military to stop the Emperor from surrendering, and to go on
fighting known as The Kyūjō Incident...did you know that kids?
They almost succeeded… they wanted to go fighting until the
end even AFTER the nuke bombs, but luckily the Emperor managed to sneak a
recording of his surrender speech and the nation surrendered. The military
plotters then committed suicide...
Truman made a very hard decision but that in the end saved
millions... and we should thank him for it...war is never easy, or clean cut.
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