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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: onepoorguy 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Hmmmm
Date: 07/31/24 4:16 PM
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Also true. Tokyo already had been leveled by firebomb raids (which in total killed more than both nuclear devices we later dropped). Without looking it up, as I recall the target in Hiroshima was the Japanese 7th Army HQ. A legit military target. But make no mistake, we weren't really concerned about civilian casualties. Plus, killing the Emperor would have (possibly) backfired on us, and he was in Tokyo.

At that point, we were more concerned about US casualties which would have resulted from an invasion of the Japanese home islands (conservative estimates are about 1M dead and wounded US personnel). We also likely saved millions of Japanese lives in the process, but that wasn't really part of the calculus. Looking back, it was just a happy side-effect (I've seen estimates of up to 10M Japanese dead and wounded if we had invaded).
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