Reply #6: Common Sense suggests Nuking Japan wasn't necessary...

[Postman]

Japan is an island nation. They were militarily surrounded and defeated.

All of their imperial acquisitions were rolled back in defeat with the "Island Hopping Campaign" that was the Pacific War strategy.

Another obstacle to ending the war sooner was the US insistence on "unconditional surrender". As it turned out, the "conditions" of surrender that Japan wanted were only that Japan be allowed to keep the Emperor in place. This happened, after they were nuked.

The argument that "nuking Japan was needed to end the war" just does not stand up to logic.

Japan was nuked to show the Russians how reckless the US could be. In essence, innocent Japanese men, women, and children were vaporized to send a political message to the "communists"....How sane is that?