He had two choices. Either he would drop the atomic bombs onto Japan and end the war immediately with severe losses on the Japanese side, or he would continue with a blockade and a beach invasion on Japanese territory. He decided to use nuclear weapons instead of sending soldiers to Japan because of a statistical analysis which claimed that more lives would be lost through an invasion than through usage of nuclear weapons.
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One of the pitfalls of the U.S. policy of containment was that it "<span>often caused America to support undemocratic regimes," since the primary goal of containment was to "contain" communism where it already existed--nothing more. </span>
