I think we should just forgetin nuke the place and be done with it.
Yeah, let's nuke a country with our most advanced thermonuclear missile and destroy most of the middle east and have the rest of the world affected by nuclear fallout!
YEAH!
Well, its not like American idiots have not already loving nuke'd a place.
It wasn't as much a matter of killing as much civilians as they can, it was more of a "look at what weapon we have, we will use it on you more if you don't surrender" kind of thing, meant to scare the stuff out of the country. If they wanted to kill most of the civilian population, it would have been dropped on Tokyo. Guess what the Japanese emperor did? His ass surrendered.
Invading japan by land would have costed a lot more lives, and would have prolonged the war by some years.
(I worded that really strangely and it is hard to understand, but I'm too lazy to edit it.)