# New article claims "The Atomic Bombings of Japan Were Based on Lies" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-article-claims-the-atomic-bombings-of-japan-were-based-on-lies/988390 "2023-08-11T06:38:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-article-claims-the-atomic-bombings-of-japan-were-based-on-lies/988390/26 "2023-08-11T20:54:10Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > > > Were the bombs the only option? No. But the alternative was predicted to be somewhere between half a million to well over a million U.S. casualties. It took two bombs and the threat of the Soviets having a say in what happened to Japan afterwards to end the war. The Japanese were clearly not ready for surrender just with the threat of invasion. > > As you implied above, Japanese casualties would have been much bigger than this, certainly far greater than for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So anyone saying they oppose the bombing because of the loss of life is full of it. Indeed. > [@Seventy Years Ago Today....](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seventy-years-ago-today/727154/17): > > Extrapolating from the percentage of the total population which died during the invasions of Saipan and Okinawa, something like six million Japanese would have died if the Allies invaded their homeland. Many of them at their own hands. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-article-claims-the-atomic-bombings-of-japan-were-based-on-lies/988390)._