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“... a billion Nigerians and barely 25 million South Koreans, which adds up to a lot more people. As Dean Spears and Michael Geruso write in After the Spike, ‘in the short run of one generation or less, the global population is a very big ship, slow to turn.’ Much of what will happen is already determined, so that even dramatically declining birth rates ...”

“... almost three million soldiers and many more civilians to resist invaders with small arms, spears and suicide bombs for as long as it would take to induce them to accept Japan’s conditional surrender, sans the country’s occupation. This, incidentally, invalidates the later contention that Truman used the bomb in order to intimidate Stalin, a claim ...”