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(B2431) wrote:

From: (B2431)


Let's look at the options: blockade, atomic bombing, invasion and
conventional bombing.


I omitted one: the Allies could simply have taken all their toys and
gone home. This would have reduced the number of child deaths in
Japan to near zero.

....for the very short term.

For the longer term, the world would have had to face a resurgent
Japanese hegemony in a very few years.

One little note: the next target in line for heavy bombing was rail
yards. American bombers were going to systematically erase as many rail
switching areas as possible - many of which hadn't been hit in the
previous years. Postwar estimates *started* at one million Japanese
dead from starvation from this one strategy alone...

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