On topic: A-Bomb necessary? A different approach?

I omitted one: the Allies could simply have taken all their toys and gone home.
This would have reduced the number of child deaths in Japan to near zero.

But not the tens of thousands of Japanese children who died as a
consequence of the Russian mop-up of China and Korea. No way was
Stalin going to miss out on that.

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