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Of course, remember that after years of take-no-prisoners fighting, massive fire bombings by the U.S., the Rape of Nanking and numerous other atrocities by the Japanese (still being officially ignored in Japan), estimated millions of Japanese and 100,000 American deaths if there were an invasion of the Home Islands, the American soldiers played a "careless" and "heartless" football game. In the course of the War and its aftermaths, this incident is not even a blip.

What would have happened had the Japanese won? Or even if a peace treaty was signed with both sides just keeping what they had at the end of 1944?

There was no taboo. In the '50s and '60s we all knew of the horrors of Hiroshima as it was brought up over and over in schools, in having practice drills, in discussions about a new nuclear war, on TV, in movies, everywhere. I remember those days even if some forgot them or were too young or just were more interested in talking about free love than the horrors of nuclear deaths.