Nuclear Strike Really Did Save Lives
2009-03-07
Posted by: badanov
Fits has posted an article about the issues concerning an invasion of the Japanese home isles and the putative costs.
A taste:
Allied intelligence had established that the Japanese had no more than 2,500 aircraft of which they guessed 300 would be deployed in suicide attacks.
In August 1945, however, unknown to Allied intelligence, the Japanese still had 5,651 army and 7,074 navy aircraft, for a total of 12,725 planes of all types. Every village had some type of aircraft manufacturing activity. Hidden in mines, railway tunnels, under viaducts and in basements of department stores, work was being done to construct new planes.
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