If war broke out tomorrow....

[Weltall]

USA had approximately 295,000 casualties. Japan, 1,806,000. Um, Japan was 'exponentially higher' in the casualties department. The war was all but won. No need for the a-bomb.

*Edit-type in WWII Casualties on Altavista and some searches come up for some casual ties from WWII. :D

There were still, at the least, a million men in Japan's military when the decision was made to drop the bombs. We did eliminate their navy and air force for the most part, but to invade and capture Japan city by city? There's no telling if we'd even win such a war, to say nothing of scoring a very costly victory. To conduct such an invasion totally from the sea, being vastly outnumbered... the only way there wouldn't be a huge body count is if we were soundly defeated and driven off. Hardly something to hope for.

Japan's casualty total for the war was very high, but then again, their war essentially started several years before we got involved.

Plus, my statement still stands. Those casualty numbers, for both sides, would have been far larger if we had invaded instead of dropping the bomb. There is little room for debate on that topic.

What you're essentially saying is that dropping the bomb was the worst thing we could have done, but you can offer no plausable alternative to it.