For me this is just too much giving the benefit of the doubt. I find it much more likely, and I'm pretty sure that most historians agree, that they were dropped

For me this is just too much giving the benefit of the doubt. I find it much more likely, and I'm pretty sure that most historians agree, that they were dropped to deter the USSR. Japan had lost the war, to assume that there was only a choice between dropping the bombs or invasion is yet again to be too kind.