... was important is because it saved millions of American and Japanese lives. According to Phil Boas, the United States decided to drop the atomic bombs because "Japan threatened to be a slaughter house from one end of the main land to another." It is said that a massive land invasion would have been needed to try and end the war, and the carnage on ... ...

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