User blog comment:NovaSims/What WW2 have been like if Hitler adnt attacked Russia and Japan hadnt attacked America?/@comment-4621372-20120909190549/@comment-9906822-20120909204450

Threatening a western (or any other sane) power with military repercussions might have some effect, but I don't think this was the case for militarist Japan. At this stage they had the mindset of subjugating the continent or perish in the attempt.

And the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki pale in comparison of what could've been, had operations Olympic and Coronet been carried out. Millions of military casualties on both sides and the futile self-sacrifice of millions more Japanese civilians.