None of this makes sense. If US didn’t use nuclear bombs, nothing would be different. Japan at that point was already devastated. They no longer had any ability

None of this makes sense. If US didn’t use nuclear bombs, nothing would be different. Japan at that point was already devastated. They no longer had any ability of defense or attack. US and Allies were already winner and dictated rules of new world. Japan would have just slide into a poor nation like North Korea or Iran. The point is, there was no need for bombing of any kind. Japan wasn’t a threat at that point.