From: "Phil Payne" 

> 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?

But a line could have been drawn under that.  People are still dying from
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.

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