Well, the responses have been utterly predictable. No one (with small exceptions) considers any other option other than bombing or invasion. And there were other options:
I outlined the choices. Let Japan rot from famine through the fall and winter, invade to force a settlement (with the accompaning problems that brings), or demonstrate the bomb. Sure, the US could've devestated some rural area or dropped it off the Tokyo coast, but we can never be sure that would've forced Japan to capitulate.
I thought you would have favored more bombings.
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