12686759, we didn't deserve pearl harbor. war is grimey on both sides.
Posted by Madvillain 626, Mon Dec-29-14 11:36 PM
A full scale ground assault would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives and Japan was particularly stubborn about not surrendering. Our only goal was to end the war as soon as possible and if the fire bombings (which were just as fucked up and took more lives) couldn't get them to fold then we had to pull out the trump card. Twice. And we still had to pretend we had a third one that we didn't even have just to get them to surrender.
It was very fucked up tho, I'm aware.
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