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ThePowerPoint t1_j65vd9i wrote

Reply to comment by binger5 in TIL about the Kyujo Incident that occurred on Aug 14, 1945 where several Japanese officers occupied the Japanese Imperial Palace in an attempted coup of the Emperor to prevent him from surrendering to the Allies. They murdered several people and when their plot failed, they committed suicide. by ClownfishSoup

It would have. Getting an army big enough to invade by land that close to mainland Japan would take months, possibly a year or more. They’d easily make more atomic bombs in that time too and would drop them on the other critical targets. The Japanese would inflict some damage but the damage the Japanese would have taken would have been much worse. The damage done by the bombs was terrifying. Japan was ready to fight an invasion force before they saw the damage from the bombs. They knew more would be on their way eventually if the fighting kept going. It also takes about 2-3 months to create the bombs so there is no way we’d be “out” of atomic bombs for long

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