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Hiroshima, the first city, was "an important army depot and port of embarkation in the middle of an urban industrial area. It is a good radar target and it is such a size that a large part of the city could be extensively damaged. There are adjacent hills which are likely to produce a focussing[sic] effect which would considerably increase the blast damage. ...
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The U.S. likely did not target Tokyo for the atomic bomb strikes as it was the seat of the Emperor and the location of much of the high ranking military officers. These are precisely the people you do not want to kill if you want to negotiate a surrender, as they are the people you would be negotiating with.
The U.S. decided to drop the bombs onto military ...
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The United States could produce enough nuclear material for one atomic bomb every six months. In August, 1945, it had the two bombs and at least "part" of a third. If Japan hadn't surrendered by then, a third bomb would have been available no later than early 1946.
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The people already living in the Ezo, the Ainu, were no joke militarily, and tangled regularly with the Mongolian Empire on Sakhalin, and later, the Ming in the Amur Valley. It's not clear the Japanese could have taken the island completely if they wanted to, not before they modernized in the 19th century.
This also highlights another point - the islands ...
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My guess is that these were the officers of the Japanese 38th Army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_French_Indochina_Campaign
There was a strange line up. On one hand, you had the "Allies," who included the French and the Nationalist Chinese. Ho Chi Minh hated these people.
"The enemy of my enem(ies) is my friend." As such, the Japanese were Ho Chi ...
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As the child of a man who was scheduled to be part of an invasion force of mainland Japan, and given the casualty estimates for that activity, it is likely in the extreme that I personally, and my children, as well as my sibs and their children, would not have existed if not for Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
From this standpoint, how can anyone reasonably condemn ...
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