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Obviously a complex topic. All of the common theories have been posted, but what about economics? It's been glazed over, cheaper to drop the bomb than continue firebombing. But we had been dumping money into Europe and the Pacific. I think the idea of ending the war before we could no longer wage a war, was a very real issue. And although not often documented, there were numerous protests against continuing the war in Europe. I think we just needed to end it.
And while the Japanese had shown indications that they were willing to surrender, the Emperor was seen as a deity by the people. Leading many to believe that in order to gain victory in Japan, every last Japanese would have to die or they would later take up arms against us. I don't think anyone wanted that. Nor did we really want a ground war on their turf. They'd already proven their tenacity and skill everywhere we fought. A long costly genocide was bad for everyone.
Someone earlier asked 'why did Japan attack us?'. It's my understanding, we cast the first stone there. In an effort to stay out of the war in Europe, but support our allies. We imposed an embargo on grains, steel and oil moving into Japan. After nearly 2 years of this, they attacked Pearl Harbor.
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