Incidentally ... the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were dramatic single events that unleashed great destruction, but the results for those cities were not worse

Incidentally ... the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were dramatic single events that unleashed great destruction, but the results for those cities were not worse than those in other cities in Japan facing bomb firestorms. The nuclear bombs didn't factor much into Japan's eventual surrender. "There is general agreement that the bombing of Nagasaki did little in the way of changing the hearts and minds of the Japanese military. By blaming their surrender on the atomic bombs, Japan avoided the Soviet Union having a hand in the post-war reconstruction process. Japan was afraid that the Soviet Union might try to push a communist regime onto the country. It was also very convenient for the U.S. that Japan attributed their surrender to the atomic bombings." https://outrider.org/nuclear-weapons/articles/japans-surrender https://outrider.org/nuclear-weapons/articles/japans-surrend... EDIT: incidentally