tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post1237278884891799632..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Seventy years agoHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-12448926439990505962015-08-21T14:12:47.939+01:002015-08-21T14:12:47.939+01:00The alternatives to the nuclear attack were invasi...The alternatives to the nuclear attack were invasion (as you say) or what essentially amounts to siege warfare; cut all external air and sea links and continue the conventional bombing campaign. Targeting the internal road and rail links and maybe bomb the food growing areas to starve them to the negotiating table. Both these options would have involved far greater death and suffering on the part of the Japanese than actually happened.AKMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-76094080985085954522015-08-10T18:06:15.281+01:002015-08-10T18:06:15.281+01:00Sorry, yes, you are right. I shall edit it to show...Sorry, yes, you are right. I shall edit it to show that I have been corrected. Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-49772387008388910142015-08-06T17:43:30.044+01:002015-08-06T17:43:30.044+01:00Three days laterThree days laterJohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05696206173235574775noreply@blogger.com