Actually the whole "invasion would have cost millions of lives" argument has been debunked for several years.
In fact, two months before the first nuke was dropped on Japan, Hirohito offered surrender to the U.S. through diplomatic channels with some stipulations. The main sticking point according to the U.S. was that Hirohito wanted to remain on the throne. Truman said this was ridiculous and went ahead with finalizing and deploying the two nukes. Conspiracy theorists now state this may have been to test the capability of the bombs on urban locations and populations. (This is why both bombs had to be dropped, and would have been dropped even if Japan formally surrendered after the first [they were of different technologies and both needed to be tested]).
I never said millions, I said thousands. I highly doubt that an invasion would have had fewer causalities then both nukes. The continued bombing by the B-29s would have likely racked up more dead. And debunked, by who? Most scholars that I've read put that total dead on all three sides (Russians, US, and Japan) to be close to a million.
As far as conspiracy theories, anyone that even brings up conspiracy theories shouldn't be taken seriously.
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Actually the whole "invasion would have cost millions of lives" argument has been debunked for several years.
In fact, two months before the first nuke was dropped on Japan, Hirohito offered surrender to the U.S. through diplomatic channels with some stipulations. The main sticking point according to the U.S. was that Hirohito wanted to remain on the throne. Truman said this was ridiculous and went ahead with finalizing and deploying the two nukes.
Conspiracy theorists now state this may have been to test the capability of the bombs on urban locations and populations. (This is why both bombs had to be dropped, and would have been dropped even if Japan formally surrendered after the first [they were of different technologies and both needed to be tested]).
I never said millions, I said thousands. I highly doubt that an invasion would have had fewer causalities then both nukes. The continued bombing by the B-29s would have likely racked up more dead. And debunked, by who? Most scholars that I've read put that total dead on all three sides (Russians, US, and Japan) to be close to a million.
As far as conspiracy theories, anyone that even brings up conspiracy theories shouldn't be taken seriously.