Atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, not Nuclear weapons. The two are very different (Correct me if I'm wrong haha).

There is a huge reason as to why Japan didn't stop fighting a war they were unlucky not to win. Japanese Generals were told that the American Army, if they were to ever be captured or to ever enter the homeland, world .... and pillage Japanese civlians and massacre Japanese soldiers who did surrender; this propanda would mean that the Japanese would never surrender, why surrender when theres no possiblity for survival?

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