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Originally posted by: Kingsama
I have never heard any convincing evidence that Japan was about to throw in the towel, though many of the civilians might have, but the military showed no signs, and seemed ready to pull a stalen and throw every avaliable person into harms way. Add this to the horrific battles of island hopping and you have a problem. Estimates of 5 million men needed for the first wave of an invasion. Another thing to remember is that this was a country that was behaving as brutal to the people around them, if not more so, than the germans. IIRC death estimates on the US side alone ranged from 1-5 mill. I have never seen stats on the Japanese side of the coin. Either way that is disturbing. Disturbing, but not as disturbing as the idea of Hitler having his own, which was under developement.
I have heard and read on inumerous ocasions the opposite, that Japan was ready to give up. The whole Japanese surrender agreement has been written before Hiroshima. In fact, all those evidences of the japanese military ready to give up were somewhat hidden of the general public so that the bombing seemed justified. OK, I agree that it might sound justified, a bomb that killed millions of inocent people in a horrible way so that other hundreds of thousands of blood thirst soldiers didn't die with a bullet in their heads, sure why not. But what sickens me is that some people are actually PROUD of the bombings. Proud.