1) "Surrounding them" would involve an incredible series of costly engagements to get to that point.
2) Wasting a nuke just to "show them" is preposterous and obviously would not have worked to end the war.
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BowtiedBumpkin
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Replying to @JordanSchachtel
Or… just surrounding them and forcing capitulation through complete cutoff from the global economy?
Drop a nuke off their coast so they could see what was possible… without killing civilians?
Japan knew they were done. They would have quit. Why would we have had to attack
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