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> How could detonating a nuke over a city not violate humanitarian law … ?

Would you rather have millions of Japanese die—either from trying to repel a US landing or through starvation if a blockade was enact—or 'just' a few hundred thousand?

The atomic bomb was strangely the most humane way, that probably saved the most Japanese lives, of ending the war.



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