srevster
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Actually the nuclear bombs were unnecessary since the Japanese were on the defensive and were defending their mainland. Most of their carriers were sunk, and it was guerilla warfare on island chains.‘US did not win the WW2 with GDP numbers but with 10 million US soldiers and supply chain in the field which supplied not only the US soldiers but also all the allies of food and military hardware. What would have taken 3 more years to breakthrough Japanese resistance, was accomplished by two nuclear bombs.
had the US called for a ceasefire, it would have been considered a U.S. victory. However, the US wanted to deter Japan from every attempting something like that again by absolutely devastating them with the nuclear option.
initially the Japanese planes and aircraft were superior to US vessels and planes. The Americans simply out produced the Japanese so they could afford to make mistakes. Towards the end, Japanese pilots were not able to do sorties with ammunition or bombs, so they resorted to Kamikaze attacks. Fundamentally, the production capacity at peak of world war 2, was one ship a day.