rocketpig on 20 September 2010
It needed to be done. More civilians would have died in a conventional invasion and the Russians would have demanded a piece of Japan (they were beginning to move equipment east to "assist" in the invasion).
Overall, the Japanese should thank the US for dropping those bombs. More civilians probably would have died via carpet bombing and we'd be looking at a N Korea/S Korea split in Japan right now if the Russians became involved.
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