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Japanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945
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I feel that reaching your conclusion on that basis would have been all but impossible without the benefits of hindsight.
Also, long-term effects were not known then
I meant in reference to the post-war attempts at nuclear restraint, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki.