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After all, might we not say that placing the lives of a relatively small number of Americans at greater risk in order to spare the lives of a relatively huge number of Japanese civilians would have been the right thing to do?
Thing is, one of the main reasons or justifications for using nuclear weapons in this way was that there was no way you *could* defeat a whole nation, using soldiers, and get a relatively small number of dead people.
A direct invasion would be messy, to say the least, and would result in dead Japanese soldiers, dead American soldiers AND dead Japanese civilians.
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