[CaptainCrunch]

I agree, the Bombs were equally important to keeping the Soviets out of the Pacific War. But with the Atomic Bomb, the American's illustrated that they could destroy cities very easily without using hundreds of bombers.

Its doubtful though that the Japanese would have surrendered due to normal fire bombing, the ability to destroy a city with one bomber showed the Japanese that they had strategically and tactically lost the ability to protect their home Islands.