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than American lives. Japan’s determination to continue fighting was evident in how, even after Hiroshima, it did not surrender. And in the following days, despite Russia declaring war and another bomb being dropped on Nagasaki, Japan’s six leaders remained evenly split on whether to surrender. The Japanese military wanted to pursue its strategy of maximizing U.S.
The Japanese military strategy of maximizing U.S. losses might not have worked anyway, because the Americans were developing alternatives to invading Japan. After its bloody conquest of Okinawa, the U.S. was shifting to a strategy of starving Japan into surrender, a tactic that would have cost many more civilian than military deaths as Japan’s army had already begun hoarding food supplies for just such an eventuality.
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