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If your goal is to end a war, there are much easier ways. If your goal is to win the war, well...

• defrost 2mo ago
  The specific goal at the time was to test two prototype weapons of differing design.
• wredcoll 2mo ago
  Wow yes the USA and friends could have just surrendered. Brilliant insight. Very clever. I'm sure everyone being tortured to death by the various Japanese military units would super appreciate that.
  • stavros 2mo ago
    As much as the people vaporized by the atomic bomb would, I'm sure.
    • account42 2mo ago
      I'm sure they would have preferred being torn apart and burned alive by conventional weapons.
    • wredcoll 2mo ago
      Perhaps they shouldn't have STARTED THE WAR THEN.