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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by thatguy0900 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @12:55PM (#30530367)
If Russia nuked Ukraine they might win the war on Ukraine, sure. Japan didn't even quit until there were two though. Would they have quit with no nukes and just firebombing?
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Re:What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, exper... by thg on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @01:42PM (#30531051)
Japan didn't surrender because of anything the US did, but because Russia declared war on them (two days after Hiroshima and a day before Nagasaki).

The US may just as well have dropped 10 more nukes and it wouldn't have changed anything. The Japanese didn't care whether it took a 1.000 bombs to destroy a city or a single one. Even more so, since they didn't know anything about the radioactive fallout and long-term effects. To them, it was just a bigger bomb.

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