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> I've always been under the impression that the US could have beaten Japan
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There is zero doubt that we "could" have beaten Japan without dropping the
A-bomb.  The debate centers around at what cost that would have been.  Some
argue that we could have blockaded the island and that they were near
collapse and would have surrendered with "minimal" loss of life, at least
well under the results of the atomic weapons.  Some argue that Japan would
have never surrendered, so to speak, and would have waited for invasion;
there is very little doubt that an invasion of Japan would have cost many
more lives than the dropping of the atom bombs.

> But we had this new toy, and...   "let's see if it works."
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> Now we have $40 billion to play with.
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