Boris that is your opinion but this is the one I hold. Truman in my opinion did not have a choice.
those things ALONE make it so that the Japanese deserved some sort of karmic punishment.

Different situation, but it holds that the survival of the Emperor was not a negotiated condition, but rather something that the Allies gave to the Japanese in a gesture of magnamity
the outrage by the Americans over the Lusitania disaster in 1915? Certainly that should have been expected as just a part of war.
because they were both extremely important nodes (and production centers) for the Army and Navy of the Imperial Japanese Forces.
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