Yup. 45 cities were burned to the ground via conventional incidiary bombing.
No surrender.
Then Hiroshima.
Still no surrender.
Took a second a-bomb.
In addition, they didn’t have any complaint coming.
If there hadn’t been surrender at that point, more a-bombs were in the pipeline for a cadence reaching out to about December ‘45.
After the final defeat, the rest of Asia would have cheered, then visited long enough to piss on the ashes.
If anything, Japan got off light.
Only three were made. The process of making fissionable material in those days was slow.
Yes. To his dying day Dad hated the Japanese.
Most of my uncles were in the Pacific. One survived Iwo Jima, another was wounded at Guadalcanal.
If I could turn back the clock I would love to get an account from each of them of their experiences. Not sure they would all talk about them, however.