re: #316 Shimshon

I’m sorry but even a cursory look at the historical record shows otherwise. Without the nuclear weapons use, Operation Downfall would have proceeded as preparations continud right up to the cease fire. There were too many years in the military who were barely willing to surrender at the Emperors order even after Nagasaki proved we had more than one super bomb. Had those attacks failed, the US would have invaded the south, the Soviet Union the north and very little of Japanese culture would exist outside of museums and cemeteries.