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to add, japan was in particular interested in surrendering to the americans to avoid soviet prosecution so long as they could keep hirohito as a figurehead. the us ostensibly made a big fuss about that, so they just had to use the nuke to avoid invading... and then of course let hirohito continue to be the figurehead anyway.
It was implied above, but adding that preventing Soviet forces getting there first by ending it sooner with mass death was also a part of the point. We can end the war sooner by blowing up entire cities, this means the “reds” cant get there first, glances at the timeline for a ground invasion, we cannot risk a west japan/east japan situation, kill em all.
Imagine a world where NE Japan had decades of being communist. The anime would be so lit.