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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 583035" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>No I didnt.</p><p> </p><p>In a perfect world there would be no war and the point would be moot.</p><p> </p><p>Our current military strategy calls for surgical strikes on military targets with precision weapons, with every effort made to minimize civilian casualties.</p><p> </p><p>Such technology did not exist in 1945. </p><p> </p><p>We did attempt to warn the Japanese civilian population of impending attacks on their cities by dropping leaflets. Our goal in destroying the cities was to cripple the Japanese war effort and eliminate their industrial capabilities to make weapons. Far <em>more </em>civilians would have died of starvation or been killed in combat had we continued our naval blockade and launched the invasion of the home islands that was planned to begin in November.</p><p> </p><p>The final conventional attack upon Japan was launched because we were trying to keep the pressure on them to surrender and end the war. A 3rd atomic strike was not possible for the simple reason that we did not have any nuclear weapons left; the test bomb and two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had depleted our entire supply of plutonium and enriched uranium, and we were several weeks away from being able to construct another weapon. We didnt want them (or the Russians) to know this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 583035, member: 14668"] No I didnt. In a perfect world there would be no war and the point would be moot. Our current military strategy calls for surgical strikes on military targets with precision weapons, with every effort made to minimize civilian casualties. Such technology did not exist in 1945. We did attempt to warn the Japanese civilian population of impending attacks on their cities by dropping leaflets. Our goal in destroying the cities was to cripple the Japanese war effort and eliminate their industrial capabilities to make weapons. Far [I]more [/I]civilians would have died of starvation or been killed in combat had we continued our naval blockade and launched the invasion of the home islands that was planned to begin in November. The final conventional attack upon Japan was launched because we were trying to keep the pressure on them to surrender and end the war. A 3rd atomic strike was not possible for the simple reason that we did not have any nuclear weapons left; the test bomb and two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had depleted our entire supply of plutonium and enriched uranium, and we were several weeks away from being able to construct another weapon. We didnt want them (or the Russians) to know this. [/QUOTE]
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