Quote Originally Posted by stoffi View Post
Documentation from Japan's leadership shows that the government actually was prepared to fight to the last man. When the bombs struck, Emperor Hirohito(who wasn't a very strong emperor) cut through and called for surrender, given the hopeless situation of facing hundreds of nuclear bombs, devastating the country and the population in such an enormous degree without any real chance to fight back.
The bombs were a bluff though, the US had NO MORE nuclear bombs at the time and couldn't have nuked Japan anymore for a while, but the effect was what they had hoped for.
My point is that you could have made the situation look hopeless without a nuclear bomb... Does not take so much. But as I said in my last post I do think the result quite possibly was less deaths then if no bomb. The end of world war two was well done except for giving russia soviet states. Everything that america touched turned out pretty decent, everything russia touched sucked.

None of the major powers of WW2 have been in a major conflict since WW2. So in some ways the war was a success I guess in restoring peace.