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Specifically, the argument was that the only alternative would have been a full-scale

invasion of mainland Japan at a projected cost of as many as a million American

casualties

During the Cold War that followed the close of World War II, Western media

pushed the point of view that Communism was the next version of Fascism and required

the intervention of the United States to prevent the Soviet Union from expansion into the

entire Eastern Hemisphere and even beyond. Subsequently, the American-lead Western

media continually exaggerated the conventional and nuclear capabilities of the Soviet

Union to justify the establishment of U.S. military facilities throughout the Western

Hemisphere and the European continent as well as the deployment of nuclear missile

systems throughout the United States. This distortion of the Soviet military capabilities

was partly directed at the American public to justify financial expenditure on a massive

American military and partly directed at the rest of the world to justify American

expansionism in so far as its establishment of military facilities in other countries......

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