From: Monte Davis 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote:

>I'm not arguing against the Hiroshima bombing but I do doubt that we would
>have had to go into Operation 'Downfall' and invade...

Probably not; even without fire bombing we were approaching a complete
blockade. But you have to include in the calculation how long that blockade
would have required to bring the Imperial circle to the stage it reached
around August 10, 1945. How many Japanese would have died of hunger and
associated diseases?

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