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Originally Posted by Willravel
I know that murdering a lot of people is more dramatic than a press release, but if the soviets were invited to the testing of a nuclear weapon on some island somewhere wouldn't they have gotten the point? Without us having to blow up two cities in a country that we had already beaten?
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That's a question for novelists, not historians. It was an option that was considered, but there were still military issues left with Japan, and no one wanted to invade the Home Islands. There's rarely no one single answer to things like this.