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We were in a state of formal, declared war with Japan. The morality of the bomb can be debated, but either way it was a legal act of a legal war. The USSR was our ally in that war, not our opponent, and without a formal declaration of war against them, any attack on them -- let alone a nuclear attack -- would have been both immoral and illegal. You would never, ever have gotten that declaration of war in 1945.
No, we would have to wait until 1950 to have a "police action." We could have done the same thing there and we wouldn't have had to worry about a "police action" later. It could have been done under several auspices over the treatment of the people in East Berlin and subsequently East Germany, not to mention Poland etc. Instead we had West Germany in a condition of an economic miracle by 1955 while East Germany was a depressed prion state where millions of people were used as forced labor and either starved or died as a result. No miracle---just death and destruction. The SED was just wonderful for Germany. :doh: