>obviously [the atomic bombs] actually did bring about immediate capitulation Not at all obvious: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stone-kuznick-hi

>obviously [the atomic bombs] actually did bring about immediate capitulation Not at all obvious: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stone-kuznick-hiroshima-obama-20160524-snap-story.html https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stone-kuznick-hi... (this op-ed is the first thing that popped up on a quick google but it has been covered much more thoroughly elsewhere - the short of it is that having a city bombed to oblivion wasn't actually a terribly novel thing for Japan at this stage of the war, whereas the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was a Big Deal)