# 84th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 7, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/84th-anniversary-of-pearl-harbor-day/1025499 "2025-12-07T20:04:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/84th-anniversary-of-pearl-harbor-day/1025499/15 "2025-12-08T01:28:43Z")
If you / anyone are curious about the whole “nukes vs invasion” topic, here are two threads from 2023 that pretty well hash that out in detail: > [@New article claims "The Atomic Bombings of Japan Were Based on Lies"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-article-claims-the-atomic-bombings-of-japan-were-based-on-lies/988390): > > Is there any validity to this article ? I > [@WWII - As of VE Day, does anyone know how long government and military officials expected it to take to defeat Japan?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwii-as-of-ve-day-does-anyone-know-how-long-government-and-military-officials-expected-it-to-take-to-defeat-japan/982787): > > I was looking at some old newspapers on [newspapers.com](http://newspapers.com) - mostly US (my country), but some British and commonwealth. Right around VE Day, seems like reporters talked to everyone who could conceivably have an opinion and found out how long they thought it would take for Japan to be defeated. I saw numbers anywhere from 3 months to 3 years. Obviously, the former was the more accurate. But do we have internal documents saying how long the military expected it to take? The higher-ranking governm… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/84th-anniversary-of-pearl-harbor-day/1025499)._