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Rex is right on this point. That was the official U.S. military pre-invasion estimate, that it would cost a million American casualties to capture the home islands of Japan in 1945, and would have cost an estimated 3 million Japanese lives.

So all the liberal dumbasses who say that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unnecessary and brutal... wrong. It saved millions of lives on both sides, by pushing for a quick surrender.

Also Hiroshima was the port city from which the Japanese invasions of Korea and Manchuria were launched.
Hiroshima had a population of 160,000 at the time the bomb was dropped, 40,000 of whom were Japanese troops.
So Hiroshima was not an innocent city filled with unfairly targeted civilians. It was a legitimate military target. If not for the Japanese basing military facilites right next to civilians, the civilians would not have been targeted.