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Originally Posted by noodle
There is always another way... The situation can't of just been "Use atomic bomb" or "America loses millions of its soldiers".
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Exactly, as I said before it's likely that A-bomb use was absolutely innecesary. Japanese army wasn't really afraid of A-bomb so much as many believe today, they knew that US can't produce those bombs fast enought to replace carpet bombardments and CB was in fact more devastating. We have to remember that early atomic warheads were nothing compared to modern ones.
Also Japan wanted to fight to the very end becouse USA wanted to trial the emperor, who was living god for 90% of japanese. They would do anything to prevent that. When USA dropped this demand they surendered.
Seriously use of A-bomb wasn't necesary and wasn't the key to Japan's surrender. USA just wanted to show their new weapon to Soviets (and the whole world), becouse they knew they would become enemies.
You have to remember that history is written by the victors and they often like to justify their decisions.