The bombs were a great gift from the USA to Japan.
They were an entire country taking their meals from the chamber pot of a sawed off, tin god asshole of an emperor, committing unspeakable atrocities in a complete state of unfounded arrogance.
Look at 'em now, a wonderful, peaceful, productive country. No, not absolutely, but by comparison to most other miserable countries, definitely.
In my opinion, and I'm not even close to alone in this, a truce, a treaty, or even a thorough conventional ass kicking would not have achieved this fortunate outcome.
Spiking a couple of million degree footballs worked like a charm.
Japan is a “wonderful” country? They have committed suicide. They won’t exist in forty years. They have aborted themselves. As have we.
It is no accident that the same government that committed murder multiple times to “defeat evil” also went to work promoting contraception and abortion IN JAPAN and at home.