The Bomb Museum - The Most Intelligent Thing Ever Heard

A land invasion would have resulted in a million more japanese dead, since they would not surrender. Second, if we had blockaded the island rather than invade, or dropped the abon, millions would have starved to death. Last of all, and most often overlooked, is if the allies had invaded japan, then russia would have invaded too. And just like in europe, we would have given a large part of japan to russian to rule over. So northern japan could have been like north korea if we had dropped the bombs. It's amazing to see how much was going on from all sides, good and bad. That's why i loved reading