We’d probably all be speaking Japanese if we hadn’t.
No the Japanese were done but with the fanatical defense they very sure to put up in defense of their homeland the war would have been months longer maybe a year with extremely heavy American casualties, think every Japanese soldier a suicide bomber, every plane a kamakaze, every ship and small craft a ramming bomb, that’s what they were facing, it’s hard for most to understand the true depth of fanaticism faced by the US back then
It was a sad thing but it saved American lives and was the right decision m
And just bit of largely unknown history but the Japanese had also completed an atomic bomb and tested it so the first bomb while it shocked them did not break there resolve to protect their homeland it was the second, because it was their belief that it to produce one would take all a country’s resources and a year to manufacture so when we dropped two it shocked them down to their toes and they didn’t know how many we might have, some people take for granted atomic bombs so many have been produced nowadays but back then it was a major undertaking