Loss in terms of money or efforts. Could be recent or ancient.

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    And remind me the estimated casualty counts of operation downfall, along with the civilian casualties and damage. Not to mention a North Japan and South Japan like germany.

    You won’t. But consider a pragmatic view and not an idealistic view, so be it if you need a show of force for an enemy who refuses to surrender and would rather destroy themselves and all who would try to make them yield utterly and totally.

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      Could do a show of force in an area where people don’t live, and then threaten to use it in cities or something. Like other countries with nukes do…

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        Are you kidding? Not to say we didn’t exactly have that luxury in 1945, but we didn’t.

        We had enough uranium and plutonium for the 3 bombs, and that was it. Our bluff was that we would keep doing it. And the nuke hadn’t been displayed before that point either, so what good is a threat when it hasn’t been shown before? We did exactly that and they didn’t care.