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General Dwight D. Eisenhower disagreed with your conclusion. I have much more faith in his military mind than I do yours. The Japanese had already offered conditional surrender. They were also no longer a threat to attack anyone outside of Japan. Their navy was sunk. Their air force was reduced to a handful of garbage planes that sucked so bad that it was easier to use them as flying bombs than to actually use them as bombers. Hence the rise of the kamikaze which really didn't become a thing until 1944.
And just so you know I'm not pulling this out of my ass....
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/japan-was-already-defeated-the-case-against-the-nuclear-bomb-and-for-basic-morality/
“I was against it on two counts,” Dwight Eisenhower, supreme allied commander, five-star general, and president of the United States, said of dropping nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities. “First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.”
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