Originally Posted by
at6d
You have to include the projected casualties in an invasion of the Japanese mainland in the nuke decision…it wasn’t just a “I’m tired of this” moment. The war in the pacific was beyond brutal for all involved. Just saying.
Oh, clearly. The use of the nukes was to avoid the “boots on the ground” option, at least until an unconditional surrender was signed by the senior leadership. Lowest estimate on an assault on the Japanese home islands was a quarter million US dead. Upper estimate was 4 million. that was from a total US population of only 138 million.
If the Iranians are betting it can’t happen again, they are misreading history. The US is THE ONLY nation to have ever used nukes in anger. They would be fools to assume it can NEVER happen again.
Sometimes you need to remind even sociopaths that they aren’t necessarily the only sociopaths in the world.