>>It was a terrible act, hopefully to never be repeated BUT... there's little doubt that more lives were saved, both Japanese and American/allied, by dropping those bombs rather than fighting it to the bitter end.
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>What makes you think that? I can't believe you are saving that it was for the benefit of the Japanese.

You are VERY good at misrepresenting statements, Evan.
The Japanese, I've read and heard, were training school children and grandparents and all in between to fight with staves and pitchforks and whatever else they could get their hands on to protect the homeland. The teaching was that you were unfaithful to the glorious emperor if you did not and that would be a shame greater than anything else imaginable. Death protecting the emperor was promoted as a good and wholesome thing.
There would have been blood everywhere in Japan, of both Japanese and American/allied troops.

No bomb, regular or nuclear, ever "benefits" anyone. But the use of those 2 nuclear bombs saved thousands, if not millions, of lives.