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Numerous critics and pro-atomic bomb people will inevitably argue that both atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were absolutely necessary to bring a swift end to World War II and save the lives of hundreds of thousands Allied soldiers. However, Japan’s military was already defeated by June 1945; both its naval and air forces had been almost totally obliterated. In fact, Henry Arnold, the commanding General of the Army Air Forces declared in his 1949 memoirs: "It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse.” Furthermore, by mid-April of 1945, the United States Joint Intelligence Committee reported that the Japanese leaders were already looking to developing terms of surrender to end the