I'll give you the pity vote.
I'm surprised at the opposition (however small) to atom bombing being wrong. I mean, in the prior review it says if the bomb hadn't had been lost, more lives would have been. He ignores the second bomb. Also he claims that a military coup over the US justifies two civilian coups over the Japanese. Strange....
I think the Americans were a bit atom bomb trigger-happy. If they wanted the minimum loss of life, they should have offered very lenient conditions, and warned them about the bombs use on a city clearly.
They probably should have dropped some leaflets a day or two before saying something like "Our planes are going to drop a bomb equivalent to 2000 times a bomb we normally drop on you; run, and reduced the lifeless. Tell your emperor, resistance is futile, you will be americanised. Your cultural and technological diversity will be removed, and replaced with McDonalds (I know it didn't exist then) and, 50 grams of uranium 235 "
I think that if the leaflets were dropped, then the war would have taken fewer lives and 200,000 less would have died, as the Japanese would see what could happen. They were fighting a war against the Soviet Union on one side, and the allies on the other, and wouldn't have much resistance left. If they had left of the attack for a week or so Japan might have surrendered. Regardless of their motives at the time, this was a major terrorist act (as nuking New York would be) and deserves an apology.