The atomic bombs didn’t force Japan to surrender. Stalin did. He was within weeks of launching an invasion into northern Japan while the allies were getting ready to invade southern Japan. With a million soldiers in the homeland and a civilian populace willing to sacrifice themselves for the emperor, the Japanese warlords thought they could fight one great power to a standstill and force an armistice, but not two great powers on opposing fronts. That way lay disaster and utter destruction. The atomic bombs were horrible weapons but conventonal bombing had killed far more in single raids and every major city (except two) had already been reduced to rubble. The warlords would have been content to withstand a century of atomic bombing as long as the power structure and the emperor were spared. Two simultaneous invasions would have been the end of everything.
At that time, Truman did the unthinkable. I was not a democrat, nor a Truman enthusiast. I just know today there are no guts in our government and Trump was one who stood firm and knew that strength is what deters attacks.
The rest are pitiful.
And Truman did what he thought was needed and I for one, think he was right.
The Japanese hated us as well... the bombs did a terrible devastation... at the monument in New Mexico. there are messages left from Asians who think it was the US who was the aggressor.
WE did a fare amount of rebuilding in Japan and other countries.