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RE: Were the Bombs Necessary? Let's talk about it.
Looking back it seems that the bombs were the right choice to make.
However, some people think that the threat of the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan had as much to do with their surrender than the US nukes did.
What do you think about this?
In the end, it prevented many man more deaths than it could have been.
The Russians did play a part in fighting Japan, and after their successes at Stalingrad and Berlin, there was no doubt that the Soviet Union could have been a major player in the Pacific campaign. However, I'm not able to say whether or not the Japanese leadership took this into consideration over the fact that two of their cities were decimated.