It's real simple: the revisionists are wrong. Pinko, Ho, and the rest...wrong.

Japan had no intentions of surrendering before Nagasaki, at least unconditionally. They still thought they had a chance to win, and that's why they tried to hold out.

But the fact is that they still had approx 2 million soldiers on hand if an invasion broke out, they still had some remnants of an Navy, and Allied forces would have fought civilian militias as well. We're talking about possibly hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians killed on both sides that could have been killed if we conducted a ground invasion. Saying "we didn't have to" after the fact is tantamount to armchair quarterbacking.

Does nuking 300,000 people equalizes Japanese atrocities, and vice versa? No. But starting this war and the hopes of ending that war with no more American lives being taken than absolutely having to does.
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