The idea that the USA bombed Japan to spare Japanese civilians from a worse fate is just absurd.
The underlying logic is extremely controversial, and relies a lot in "othering" the Japanese, and talking about them in terms like "they would fight to the last man, woman, and child" like they were wild dogs or something.
A much stronger theory is that Japanese were sacrificed in order to flex muscle against the Soviet Union.
The underlying logic is extremely controversial, and relies a lot in "othering" the Japanese, and talking about them in terms like "they would fight to the last man, woman, and child" like they were wild dogs or something.
A much stronger theory is that Japanese were sacrificed in order to flex muscle against the Soviet Union.