I'm afraid you're working off incorrect information, Logan. The war was over long before the use of nuclear weapons. Any history book will verify that Japan was in ruin and was planning surrender months before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan's military was beaten completely in June of 1945, 2 months before the dropping of the bombs. Japan had effectively run out of oil in April. We'd carped bombed them into the stone age on March 10, killing over 100,000 Japanese with a huge bombing campaign, one of the largest in human history. The largest in history came when, on May 23, 520 B-29s dropped over 4,550 tons of incendiary bombs into Tokyo. By the time everything was said and done, 56 square miles of the capital were leveled.
The worst part, though, was that the new Japanese government made several attempts at peace in April and May.
The bombs dropped saved no American or allied lives.
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