Had the U.S. not nuked these two cities, hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops would have died invading Japan.
We didn’t start that one either folks but at least we had politicians that allowed us to win it.
Screw the Japaneese that died in those two places. They supported the madness Japan created.
A consequence not mentioned is that Joe Stalin, a good reader of tea leaves, was on the verge of declaring war on the Japanese. Had this happened and a soviet front had actually been opened, we (U.S.) would probably have been obligated to share the partition of post-war Japan with the Soviets. How such a partition may have changed post WWII geo-politics in the Pacific region would be difficult to predict.