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I have heard it said that if the choice to use the bomb during WW2 being what it was ...was easier in terms of using it on Japanese cities as opposed to European cities.



The deciding factor there was the battle for Okinawa. Truman felt (probably correctly) that if the Japanese would fight so hard against hopeless odds there, how much more so for their homeland? Bymost estimates, the only way to avoid having to kill off 1/3 to 1/2, maybe more of the population
was to apply force so overwhelming that the emperor would order the people to give up. Even then, there was a lot of opposition and even an assassination plot when the decision was made to give up.

Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python