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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
as for the video, I think Gladwell was quite brave with his conclusion (especially in the US): many are still convinced that the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan was the only right thing to do.
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If by "right thing to do", you mean the saving of thousands of soldiers and civilians from injury or death caused by an invasion of Japan, I agree. Or, we could have continued fire bombing, and killed more innocents than the two atomic bombs did while waiting for the Japanese military to admit defeat.
What were we supposed to do? Just stop fighting, and hope the Japanese generals suddenly had an epiphany and gave up?
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