From: "Phil Payne" 

> > Yes, that was why I posted the Hirshima picture.   The "laws and
> > customs or war" are peacetime constructs which have no influence on
> > wartime conduct.

> And again, you'd have prefered the million or more American and Japanese
> casualities a full blown invasion would have cost.

Again you're believing your own story.  The Japanese effort was very close
to collapse - Japan has almost no raw materials of its own and the blockade
was very effective.  Ammunition shipments to the occupied islands had
already ceased.

http://www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm

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