[cripplecreek]

If you think about it, a Japanese nuke wouldn’t have had the same effect on us as ours had on them.

It would have angered us even more and likely led to us putting even more people into the fight.

[StormPrepper]

If you think about it, a Japanese nuke wouldn’t have had the same effect on us as ours had on them.

True. But can you imagine what would have happened if they had set it off in a US harbor?

But I think the worst would have been if they set it off on a US fleet...

If they would have waited until the US tried to invade and blasted the entire invasion fleet... wow, that's a horrible vision.

[kennedy]

Japan did not surrender because we dropped a nuke. They surrendered because we dropped a second nuke AND they did not know that those were the only nukes that we had.

Making the Japanese believe that we would keep dropping nukes until they either surrendered or ceased to exist is what finally ended the war.