The Nuking of Japan

[jonb]

There seems to be a presumption that Japan at the time of the bombs only controled its Islands, but actually the area under Japanese control was still huge and the ability of Japanese troops to take revenge actions for a landing on the homeland could not be discounted. Plus there would be an option to move headquarters to Korea which the Japanese hierarchy thought about in the same way as the brits thought about Ireland until the twenties.

Also even after the surrender in very large areas the Japanese troops were left in control for many months as the allies did not have enough troops to simply replace the Japanese let alone fight them.