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

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187. They had not offered surrender. You are badly misinformed.

They were trying to get an armistice, which would keep their militaristic gov't intact. That same gov't would then oversee their own disarmament, and conduct their own war crimes trials, and no occupation. It would have been like having the Mafia judge the Mafia with no oversight. They would have been able to rearm and try again in twenty years.

We wanted that gov't removed and the country occupied.

Do you really think a blockade is gentle? The result would have been millions dead by starvation and disease - mostly the very young and the old. The Army would still have been fed from locally grown food. So a blockade would have accomplished nothing of military value.

The land invasion was already planned and gathering in Okinawa. It was scheduled for Nov 1.

The Japanese still had 10,000 aircraft, of which 2,000 were to used as kamikazes against the initial landing forces. Due to the mountains of Kyushu the planes would not have been detected on radar until they were close to the invasion fleet. The pilots were to aim for transports (Transports have to be close to the beach, and have lots of troops on them.) instead of trying to reach the covering warships. At Okinawa, the kamikazes got one hit for every nine planes launched. With the advantages of Khushu the hit ratio would have been somewhat higher. Likely that well over 300 transports would have been hit.

They had thousands of small suicide boats, packed with explosives. Some of those would have gotten through.

On land, the Japanese Army had 900,000 men to defend Kyushu. Due to terrain, the location of the expected landing was obvious, and the mountains favored the defense. In addition, all men aged 15-60 and women aged 17-40 (28 million total) were being trained to fight, using whatever was at hand.

Instead of parroting revisionists, you would do well to learn what was actually happening.