Article reasoning that what ended World War II was not the atom bomb

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Ckmlb1 said:

sales2099 said:
Ya......that is just wrong.

Japan had something called honor and didn't believe in surrender.

But when the enemy has a weapon that destroys 2 of your cities in one moment........you tend to rethink your position on continuing the war.

86 cities had already been partially or mostly wiped out with regular air strikes before the atom bombs were ever used. 

Well Japan historically refused to surrender after the first atom bomb......proving this threads theory wrong. They should have saw an out when it first happened but chose to carry on.

Only after the second strike in nagasaki did Japan finally give up.

86 cities......which costed many Allied lives, and money, equipment, but mostly time. This strategy just needed a single pilot and a single plane, and entire cities became destoryed in less then a minute. This was a game changer and this is why the war ended.