Yet more people died during the Napalm attacks than during the atomic bombing. U.S. soldiers were on the Japanese mainland and were being charged by civilians (women and children) armed with guns and swords and no idea whatsoever about how to use them.

For every piece of evidence claiming they may surrender, there was a piece claiming they wouldn't. No one knows for sure. No one can say what would happen because none of us were members of the Japanese government to truly know what they were thinking, were we?

Overkill, yes. I agree. But, like I said, I'm afraid to think of what Japan would be like today if the fighting had continued.