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Originally Posted by Fasglas
Watched 100%.
Seemed to overly-emphasize civilian casualties, especially the Japanese. I have long felt that Truman realized that a standard invasion of Japan would take YEARS, if not DECADES, to reach completion, he had no choice but to use the new weapons.
These weapons, BTW, were close to completion by Germany. Imagine the outcome had they gotten them first? Moscow, London, Washington and New York, just for a start.
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I didn't get that feeling, especially when you consider the B-29 firebombing of Tokyo, which had little military value. You couldn't really talk about the impact if you didn't include civilian casualties. In Okinawa, you had 150,000 civilian casualties, sort of hard to mention US military casualties without mentioning civilian.