If you are a GI waiting in a tropical hell-hole (their words, not mine) for an invasion, the nuclear bomb did in fact seem like divine intercession. (Japan was

If you are a GI waiting in a tropical hell-hole (their words, not mine) for an invasion, the nuclear bomb did in fact seem like divine intercession. (Japan was not militarily crippled, they actually had far more forces then the United States anticipated in the home islands. Japan was also pretty much completely disconnected from Germany even before Germany fell)