Great article but I think Hanson still understates the matter.
The last slogan of the empire was 100 million for the emperor
The emperor was God and the civilians all would have died for him had he not surrendered on radio against the will of his generals.
That was a rather enthusiastic claim, given that there were only about 70 million Japanese at the time.
Those two bombs probably saved the lives of Tens. Of. Millions. Of. Japanese.