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The port cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear-bombed to stop the War without invading Japan (Which was about ready to be done when the bombs were dropped) which saved millions of Allied and Japanese lives. A number of Japanese Navy officers after the Japanese surrender expressed their approval, as their Army was not about to surrender until everyone in Japan was dead.

A lot of people do not realize that many more Japanese were killed in the ongoing bombing of Tokyo with conventional weapons, than were killed by both nuclear bombs.

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