I do know my history very well and you have clearly bought into the propaganda. Yes, we had two bombs but could have made more. Your argument is without merit. While there were plans to invade Japan there was no compelling reason to do so as there ability to wage war had been eliminated. The status of the Emperor was a major issue that could have easily been addressed earlier. Drawing up plans and implementing them are too different issues. The invasion plans became the excuse for dropping the bomb. Your attempted insults say a lot about your lack of character. It must really suck to be you.
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You're making a highly revisionist argument from the comfort of your office, safely ensconced, 70 years after the fact. The consensus at the time was Japan would not surrender and the risk of a demonstration shot was not worth it ... remember, we only had two bombs at the time.
Keep in mind also that the purpose of war is to kill the spirit, as well as the body, of the enemy so terribly as to make sure that the enenby will not rise again. That's the part your missing. Hiroshima and Nagasaki accomplished the final killing of the Japanese sprit to fight.
Operation Olympus was the planned invasion of Japan and the estimates for allied casualties ran into the millions. <--Read that last number again.
In addition, millions of Japanese would have died. They was also an attempted military coup (Kyujuo incident) after the two bombs had been dropped and it came very close to succeeding.
You don't know your history. Good thing for you, and all of us, that you never had to make a command decision like this as a senior political leader or general officer in the US Army.
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