David Eduardo wrote:


Were the bombs not dropped, Japan would not have capitulated and the war
would have been prolonged by an obligatory land invasion, where estimates
run as high as a million additional dead.

That's always been the standard assumption, but would a ground invasion
have been needed?

I've always wondered why we couldn't just starve them into submission.
We could have continued the incendiary and saturation bombing of Japan,
continued to bomb their cities, airfields, factories and crops, bombed
any ships trying to bring food into Japan. Japan had very little natural
resources in general and virtually no petroleum in specific. We
CONTROLLED the air and could have starved them into submission without
landing a single ground troop.

It may have taken a few more months than the milliseconds of the bomb,
but do you think it could have worked?