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“They also sent a warning to the soviets.’s”
Let’s say all of these quotes are correct, and that the Japs were “already finished”. (I wonder if shortly after D-Day, when Germany surely knew that they were “finished” if we should have just stood by and waited for the end?)
I would suggest that dropping the two bombs was still necessary to keep the Soviets at bay, as well as others over the years.
If we hadn’t used them, would they have been more apt to have been used during the Cold War? It is one thing to have the scientists do tests in the desert or some island in the Pacific. It is quite another for the politicians and humanity to see the actual results.
And if we used them once, the Soviets had to think that we would use them again.
I’m sure somebody already pointed it out, but if we had just waited Japan out, the Soviets probably would have gone in first and taken it for themselves.