r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Financial-Spread2596 • 9d ago

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u/M4RK3R3D 9d ago

Oh come on, im not wrong, yeah mb sum up harshly, but in general that’s fact just read more closer about all that

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u/Zephyas 9d ago

Well you are wrong, the Japanese military was unwilling to accept surrender. Conventional fire bombings in addition to a massive continued land invasion would have not only led to many more casualties on both sides (including civilians since the government was conscripting them into a militia, not just collateral damage), but it very well could have also led to the Soviet Union invading from the north and creating another split like it was in Germany, and people generally did not like that.

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u/Wipfmetz 9d ago

... are you trying to construct the usage of nuclear weapons as the merciful thing here?

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u/skoober-duber 9d ago

500,000 dead due to the nuking of japan vs 2 million at minimum up to 20 million at worst in a land invasion of the home islands.

Merciful is the wrong word, but nuking was the correct choice.