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At the time people who weren't doing the fighting assumed it was a quick way to end the war with hopefully fewer losses all around. But now we'll never know.
It was also an attempt to scare the Soviet Union by flexing our power.
Over 200,000. Mostly women and children. I don't care about the hypothetical death counts, because there is no way to compare the lives of women and children with the lives of soldiers, which are 100% expendable.
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GameDaily Article that Interviewed Me: Console Defense Forces.