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Barely_Free's avatar

This is a great telling of history but to imply that 200,000 people didn’t have to die ignores that fact of war and what happens in all types of aerial bombings. Do not forget that the allies carpet bombed Germany and killed millions of civilians and if the A-Bomb wasn’t dropped on Japan one has to assume that there would have been a similar number of civilians killed via conventional bombing as the A-Bomb killed. The choice is and never was kill 200k civilians or kill zero, war is not that simple.

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Robert Kellogg's avatar

Truth in history is critical just as a true history of the US.

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