>Keep grasping at straws, son.

You better go make a son if you wanna call someone son.

>It's well documented that what
>you refer to as so-called "est-
>imates" were conjured up by Truman
>& were never supported by a shred
>of valid research. This is precise-
>ly why Truman created the "saving
>lives" myth subsequent to the bombings.

*LOL* That's cute...saying "valid", which gives you the option of determining which information is credible and which isn't. Nice trick.

However, the battle of Okinawa took over 40,000 American soldiers' lives. On top of that, the intercepted "Magic Summaries" intelligence stated Japan still had an estimated 2 million troops and still had a fairly strong Navy. Add that to potential hostility by the citizenry in the form of militias, and the U.S. would have lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

>>Regardless, going into Japan would have led to too many
>>people dying on our side. Hence, the bomb.
>
>That's why there were other
>viable alternatives that
>could've been sought but
>Truman wouldn't hear of it.
>Under Secretary of State Joseph
>Grew had explained this to Pres-
>ident Truman in person on May 28,
>1945. Grew had been U.S. Ambassador
>to Japan for 10 years prior to the
>attack on Pearl Harbor and was reg-
>arded as the most knowledgeable on
>Japan of any U.S. government official
>(Leahy, pg. 274).

But you can't tell me what those are. The only excuse you made was to leave the emperor in power, and that was not allowed to happen. What others were there?
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