[MinorityRepublican]

Japanese were ready to fight to the last man, and they meant it.

The bombs probably saved a lot of Japanese lives.

No bomb. We'll agree to a ceasefire with Japan. They'll withdraw from some territories but otherwise they would have their empire somewhat intact.

[HombreSecreto]

No way that would have been a rational option at the time...not after Pearl Harbor, Bataan, etc.

[Wuli]

“No bomb. We’ll agree to a ceasefire with Japan. They’ll withdraw from some territories but otherwise they would have their empire somewhat intact. “

And that would have satisfied who??

Not China, not Korea, not Russia, not any part of Indo-China Japan was allowed to keep, not Taiwan, and likely not the Philippines.

Your “solution” would have merely set up East Asia for another Asia-wide war.

[steve in DC]

It might have been a bit difficult to reconcile that approach with that whole “Unconditional Surrender” resolution.

[metmom]

You sure live in a fantasy world.