Find a single Japanese who claims they were about to surrender -- until the
sacrifice at Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave the Emperor's government BARELY
enough clout to overcome the War Party and stop the war.

As for innocent victims, whose soldiers cordoned off the cities when people
and their families, warned by US dropped leaflets to get out before the
cities were destroyed, were stopped and herded back INTO the cities? Using
one's own civilians as hostages, hoping that the enemy will be more
concerned for their welfare than you are yourself, is a tactic of tyrants
and monsters, and we've seen it from Japan to Vietnam to Palestine to Iraq,
and we'll see it again.