Nuklear bomb

[AndyJWest]

BTW, I have absolutely no doubt that military leaders in the west (the US) wanted to use the bomb as soon as it was deployable.

Do you bother to read other people's posts, Splitter? I've already pointed out twice that Eisenhower, MacArthur and Nimitz (amongst many others) thought the use of the A-Bombs unnecessary. Please stop repeating what you do or don't 'doubt', and deal with the evidence. The question is not whether the Japanese were going to surrender 'willingly', but about whether they had any ability to fight on. All the evidence suggests they didn't.