| Japan's merchant fleet had been almost completely sunk by unrestricted submarine warfare. Without resupply of fuels and other materials, a simple blockade would have accomplished a surrender in short order. The nuclear attacks were Crimes Against Humanity, uncharged because of the victorious position of the US in the conflict. Military victory precludes charges of CAH or any "war crimes".
Who can dispute "Nuclear Terror"? MAD, "mutually assured destruction" was the balance of terror that enabled a truce in the Cold War lasting forty years...
"Arms in the hands of the citizens may be used at individual discretion for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny or private self-defense." -- John Adams |