“If the fighting had continued into 1946 or ‘47, and had the American public found out we had a weapon that would have ended the war, I believe President Truman would have faced impeachment.”
There was a school of thought that the atomic bombs should have been saved to use tactically against Japanese forces during the upcoming invasion, mostly on the Kanto Plain and Tokyo.
Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giancreco
My dad had recovered from burns suffered in a plane crash in the CBI when he got a notice to return to service in July of ‘45.
The events of August in Hiroshima and Nagasaki set aside the call-up.