Are you really suggesting that, absent Little Boy and Fat Man, in late 1945 we would have blockaded Japan, continued to bomb their industrial capacity, but ferried food and medicine ashore "for the starving chirruns"?
What color is the sky in your world?
> What color is the sky in your world?
Same as it is in yours, or we would not be able to converse.
Air-dropping humanitarian aid was not difficult to do, even if industrial capacity was still being hammered.
Personally, I don’t believe a blockade would have lasted very long.
Glad I didn’t have to make the call, though. Either way, a lot of people will reckon you a villain.