Hiroshima - quit lying to yourselves

[davidpdx]

348. Operation Downfall is not a myth and yes Virginia it would have cost may more lives

It was in fact planned. There are two reasons why: 1) Truman decided against dropping the bomb (which he did not know about until after FDR died in April 1945) and 2) If the bomb didn't work.

In the months prior the bombing we had no idea for sure if the bomb would even work. If you want to question that I happen to have a direct source that was alive and involved in Operation Silverplate who had technical knowledge of the bomb.

Trinity did not happen until July 1945, less than one month before Hiroshima.

Barring that the military had to have a plan. There is no way we could have continued to fight the war for at least another year.

You really think had the bomb failed or they decided not to drop it that conventional bombing would have caused them to surrender?

How about the fact that Japan still occupied Korea and parts of other countries? Are you saying the Japanese would have simply left those countries alone?

Yes, there are varying estimates about how many lives would have been lost in an invasion. That I'm willing to agree on. Japan would have lost more lives, the allies would have easily lost 250,000 or more in an invasion.