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So what? Imagine if America got bombed and then people used the behavior of poorly understood minority sectors of the country as justification.

Man, as an outsider looking in, it seems like the propaganda program surrounding the atomic bomb is astoundingly effective. Everyone regurgitates the same arguments, the fact that its contentious in the history and ethics communities seems to be glossed over completely.

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It's not contentious. The facts are clear. It took an extraordinary turnabout by the Emperor to even consider surrender, and that only happened after the two bombs. Before the bombs the Japanese leaders believed they could force the US to accept a peace where they kept most of the lands they had enslaved.

The bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima weren't even the most deadly of the war. The US had burned most of Tokyo to the ground and more was coming.

Japanese citizens were going to die in masses when the invasion force hit the beach. Either sacrificing themselves in suicide attacks, or being used as human shields.

The facts are absolutely not clear, it's a hotly debated historical topic, and the fact that you claim it's clear is just a testament to how the American education system chooses to portray its own history to its children.

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