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It was clear that Japan would defend its home territory, and it was estimated that there would be a million Allied casualties and probably 10 million Japanese in their last ditch defence.

The atomic bombs caused about 200,000 Japanese casualties, and horrendous as this sounds, the atomic bombs were actually the most humane solution.

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