It ended the war; not the fire bombings, not the island hopping, not sinking the fleet nor clearing the skies.
We were fighting fanatics who engaged in crimes against humanity on a MASS scale.
I'm okay with it. It ended the war.
That is an argument. However, they could've demonstrated the effect on an uninhabited island and said, "you're next".
Sure hindsight is 20/20, but c'mon.
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They had 350,000 prisoners.
Do you know what they did to prisoners?
It ended the war. Immediately.
I really doubt that a demonstration on an uninhabited Island would have done jack, considering the first one didn't.
It took two. On major cities. And the threat of a third.