re: Do you feel bad about the US dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?

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Also, when you think about it, dropping that nuke saved many lives. If the United States had invaded Japan it is highly unlikely that Japan would have surrendered before a full, complete US victory. This would have resulted in countless Americans lost and an astronomical amount of Japanese casualties.

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This. People forget that the conventional bombing campaign killed around 1,000,000 Japanese citizens. They're no less dead than the people killed by the atom bomb and far more numerous.