It was a terror weapon that wasn’t necessarily needed (especially with the Soviets crashing into Manchuria and the Chinese pushing IJA forces out at the same time); an invasion of the Home Islands would probably not have been as bloody as the US claimed it would be with Japan really fighting a two-front war by Aug 1945 (also, were the Japanese really going to fight to the last civilian?)
they were literally already ready to surrender. they only asked for one condition, which they were granted after the bombs were dropped anyway – that the emperor would be allowed to live.
B-but the historian youtube guy told me that only the army on the mainland cared about the soviet invasion. The civilian government only surrendered because of muh atomic bombs. So boooth sides.
It was a terror weapon that wasn’t necessarily needed (especially with the Soviets crashing into Manchuria and the Chinese pushing IJA forces out at the same time); an invasion of the Home Islands would probably not have been as bloody as the US claimed it would be with Japan really fighting a two-front war by Aug 1945 (also, were the Japanese really going to fight to the last civilian?)
they were literally already ready to surrender. they only asked for one condition, which they were granted after the bombs were dropped anyway – that the emperor would be allowed to live.
B-but the historian youtube guy told me that only the army on the mainland cared about the soviet invasion. The civilian government only surrendered because of muh atomic bombs. So boooth sides.