The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "a terrible thing, but it had to be done" (Holmes 2). ... " This huge army would have withstood a Normandy-type amphibious landing on the beaches of Japan that "might be expected to cost over a million casualties to American forces alone" (Walker 2). ... Without the use of the atomic bomb, who knows how long the Pacific War would have continued, bringing a large death toll with it. ... Author Thomas Holmes, who writes educational journals, explained in one of his articles that "the former [Hiroshima] w...

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