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Quote from: Conley on November 21, 2011, 07:09:02 PM

Quote from: Peter1469 on November 21, 2011, 06:51:00 PM

And if the US decided to not nuke or invade Japan, and if the Japanese were still isolated and starving on their Island, how does that affect us? 

Was it not pride that caused us to consider the invasion of people who were already beaten? 

What if they're given time to regroup and resupply though?

Resupply with what?  Their islands were devastated. They were eating dirt pies. 

The nukes were a message to the world.  Not to Japan.

True. Japan was pretty much done as far as their offensive capability was concerned. The weird thing is that there were still large but poorly supplied Japanese armies in China and the Pacific. Rabaul had something like 100K men. I forget where Rabaul is but since the Japanese navy was non-existent by 1945 all they could do was fortify their base there. They were totally cut off from the home islands.

Agreed.

Still I would have used the nukes to set America up as the superpower. 

But I would have done a better job in preventing our enemies from stealing our nuke designs.

I'm not saying that wasn't a factor. I'm just not convinced that it was the primary factor.

Our government was riddled with Soviet spies throughout the 30s and 40s. Essentially, McCarthy was right. He did some good work.