(Doyle) On a special edition of "Nightline" a few years ago, Ted Koppel said: "What happened over Japan was a human tragedy But what was planned to tale place in the way between Japan and the United States would almost certainly have been a greater tragedy." ... Although the dropping of the two atomic bombs killed an estimated 225,000 people, the tragedy saved millions more in the big picture. ... Before Hiroshima, none of the horrors of war visited upon Japan prompted Emperor Hirohito to act - not the defeat of the Japanese army on Okinawa, the destruction of Japan's cities, the starva...

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