What the Oliver Stone docu says about the nuclear bombing of Japan is...

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61. Well before that point in the war civilians had become fair game.

Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo (and dozens of other fire-bombed cities). The purpose of the bomb was to end the war before we had to invade. Have you ever considered what would have happened in an invasion of Japan? The idea that they were ready to surrender is total bullshit. On Siapan and Okinawa civilians killed themselves instead of allowing themselves to be captured. They were dedicated beyond your comprehension. Japan was training all civilians, even children, to attack with bamboo spears.

You will likely laugh at the idea of someone with a bamboo spear charging a Marine. But if that Marine doesn't shoot the kid with the spear, then the Marine will be skewered. The troops would have quickly learned that all Japanese were the enemy and would have killed them all, men, women, kids. There would have been no living Japanese behind U.S. lines. Millions of Japanese would have died, and about a million U.S. casualties.

The nukes stopped all of that.