You missed the reason why we had to drop the bombs on civilians to pay for the consequences of what a military dictatorship did.
You guys get outraged over everything, so your outrage isn't even really noticed...just your idiocy.
It was basically about how we didn't want to lose millions of US troops in Japan and we didn't want the Soviets creating a Korean war thing where there would be a communist north and a capatalist south
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1 up, 5y
They were probably going to surrender anyway. It wasn't about the surrender, it was about getting it before the Soviets started deploying onto Japan.
Invade Japan and lose 1,000,000+ US troops plus, thousands of tanks,ships and aircraft; Use 2 nukes to end the war quicker but kill 200,000+Japanese civilians in the process; USA