Drop the Bomb?

Drop the Bomb?
Was the bomb necessary in the procuring of Japans surrender I think not. I believe that it was a two pronged attack. One prong was meant to maybe get revenge on the Japs and the other to put fear in the soviets.

Now so far as getting at the Japs I believe that the fact that the Japanese military had been broken speaks for its self. Even though there was an estimated 2,000,000 on the homeland and that there was artillery enough to outfit them did not mean much. I mean if Japan were still wanting to war on us they could have shot that artillery at our planes and ships pounding the, as it stood there was no effort or none noted that they resisted the raids or even could. The spirit of the military was crushed. Another point towards this was the fact that the Japanese government began seeking help from the Russian government to start negotiations with the U.S., this was not unknown to our government, on the contrary we had intercepted messages from the Japanese off...