[Balto_Boy]

A demonstration in Tokyo Bay might have encouraged surrender. But one never knows.

I think we can know, because the first bomb wasn't enough to convince Japan's hardliners to surrender.

[JoeSchem]

What we do know for sure is that Truman sent thousands of soldiers back to die through Operation Keelhaul. Strange how no one wants to talk about that, though the carnage was equivalent to Hiroshima. I guess the visual isn't there.