Excellent point - and don't forget, a protracted campaign in Japan might have given Stalin a claim to occupy part of Japan after its eventual defeat. In turn that would have meant the U.S. could not have defended South Korea. The Cold War would have been lost before it began - or would have resulted in a hot war with the USSR over western Europe.
Though sometimes perplexing, MacArthur's brilliance in the occupation in concert with the good qualities of Japanese culture, led to a mostly peaceful world for two generations.
Excellent point.
Stalin claimed Eastern Europe. He certainly would have tried to claim Japan.
Wow, dropping the bombs changed world history in a MAJOR way. Truman saved the world in ways that we will never know.
Too bad you can’t convince the hate America so called Peace activists that they might be wrong. Their simplistic view of the world might have gotten a lot more people killed. Unfortunately, we are stuck with one of them in the oval office.