The bombs saved lives....if we wanted to take Honshu and take the Emperor then they would never have given up and the fact Japan still has an Emperor still irks me but MacArthur (that cocksucker ruined us in Korea) thought he was a symbol of pride to the people of Japan and he apparently didn't want the Emperor to step down even though the US could have just wiped out the position altogether.

Douglas MacArthur was perhaps America's most dangerous general. I like Patton but he never got to be America's most dangerous general as #1 He was always on a tight leash and #2 He died shortly after WWII....but in the field of combat he was ALWAYS a winner....although he was an asshole (one of my family friends served under General Patton and I asked him about Pit and he said Patton was "a son of a bitch")

Japan being "about to surrender" after suffering so many casualties just for a couple of islands....come on Nameless you must admit that something drastic had to be done and a carpet bombing campaign would have just massacred thousands of people...the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki really limited the damage AND they made it so Japan was incapable of adding ships, weapons, tanks, etc to their forces.

Either way the bombs got dropped the war ended and Japan now flourishes with the help of Americans rebuilding that nation.