Please now explain why exploding nuclear bombs to mass murder civilians were really necessary and also why it was necessary as a demonstration of power instead of doing something like exploding Mount Fuji.
A fanciful idea indeed. It's exactly this kind of thinking that got us into war by convincing Yamamoto that we'd be a push over because we did not have the stomach for war. War is terrible. We didn't want it. We were staying out of it despite the mass atrocities of Japan and Germany. But when it was forced on us we fought it and used the weapons at our disposal. No regrets here.
Sure - it was necessary to insure the unconditional surrender of Japan, as opposed to the conditional surrender they were trying to negotiate. Sources:
