country. As foolish as that may sound, their technique was rather effective. By the war's conclusion the Japanese kamikaze attacks had sunk 3 aircraft carriers, damaged 285 craft, and sunk a total of 34 (Whiddington 130). Part of the reason for their selfless attitude is the good job done on increasing support for the war effort through propaganda . "Both scientist and publicists were in fact powerful instruments inflaming popular hatred against the democratic countries and in regimenting the people into blindly supporting the war of aggrandizement." (Ford 100) Had American and Russian forces tried to invade Japan, this resolve would only have been strengthened. Although effective for Japan, this suicidal type of fighting would have only resulted in a tremendous amount of extra casualties for both sides. If the war continued at the same pace, the projected amount of American casualties (alone) was around 500,000 (Smyth 23). Therefore, the amount of deaths caused by an invasion would have easily outweighed those of the atomic bombings.
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