The US dropped two nukes on Japanese cities

[yagotme]

96. The US had an idea of what the mainland would be like:

See: Tarawa. Saipan. Philippines. Iwo Jima. Okinawa. And all the other islands we had to pry the Japanese off of. Tell me, how many Japanese prisoners were taken, on average, on each campaign. Ratio of troops/surrendered. Pretty doggone low. Not like Europe. Now, invade the home island of Japan, fight in the streets, having to kill women/children who have been training to kill you with a rake or pitchfork. Kamikazes raining out of the sky onto the invasion fleet (like Okinawa). Fighting for probably close to a year to defeat Japan proper. Now, for the alternative, drop a super bomb on 2 cities, killing fewer Japanese in those 2 drops than you would in probably the first couple weeks of a year long campaign. Now decide which was more humane, for them, and us.