At Yalta we had no idea if the a-bomb would work. The point is that Stalin kept his promise.
Just because warmongers like MacArthur wanted a big land campaign in Japan was no reason to give it to him. Japan would have been fucked flat if it had to go through a winter without food, fuel, and other raw materials coming in.
Just because warmongers like MacArthur wanted a big land campaign in Japan was no reason to give it to him. Japan would have been fucked flat if it had to go through a winter without food, fuel, and other raw materials coming in.