Why did America nuke Japan instead of Germany?

Despite murdering 6000 gorillion Jews, America instead opted to nuke Japan. Twice. Was this show of dick size really necessary? Germany was clearly the greater threat both technologically and ideologically. Furthermore America was never friends with Germany to begin with it. So what were the real reasons for nuking a country that America previously helped extensively during the Meiji Restoration?

>VE Day 8th May 1945
>'Trinity' Test 16th July 1945

Japan's war crimes were a lot worse.

Rape is acceptable during times of war. Deal with it.

Germany surrendered before the bombs were ready

They didn't surrender so much as they were completely overrun.

Gassing Jews is acceptable during times of war. Deal with it.

Are you dumb? Germany was completely beaten by that point. Nuking japan was the correct thing to do rather than to attempt to invade it.

The non-meme answers, and of course, they are ignored.

>nuking a autistic island who refuses to surrender vs nucking a cucked land based empire who already surrendered
*thinking emoji*

Japan was nuked as an alternative to an invasion of the home islands. The fierce fighting and heavily casualties that the Americans suffered in taking Okinawa made Truman hesitant to invade Japan proper. They had already tried to bomb Japan into submission, that is partly why Iwo Jima was conquered, as an emergency airfield for bombers returning from a mission. Japan doggedly fought on, refusing to surrender, so Truman authorized the bombing of Hiroshima to try to shock Japan into capitulating.

Additionally, while Japan and the US may have once cooperated, it is important to remember that is was the Americans that forced Japan to open its borders. They had also been fighting for over three years at that point, so any friendly relationship was long past dead. It burned away with the flames of Pearl Harbor.

The Manhattan Project was created out of the fear that the Nazis would get the bomb first, but Germany capitulated before it was ready, so Japan was the only target left.

Germans were cucks on their homelands compared to fight to the death Japs.

>being this buttblasted over the nukes

Japan wasn't nuked enough desu.

Not only.

This.

We could have turned the entire island chain into an irradiated wasteland and would have avoided weeb culture and Veeky Forums entirely but here we are.

>implying some other cancer wouldn't of taken its place
Lets be honest, you would've gotten your ass stuck on some giant "Veeky Forums" equivalent.

>dat stupid question
Yeah I wonder why they didn't use nukes during the civil war too...

fpbp

the germans surrendered, japs would have fought until every last one of them died.
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Not sure if you're retarded or just memeing. Germany was already defeated and invading Japan would've had a massive civilian and military death toll.

we had plenty of Russian cannon fodder to soften Germany's defenses with their blood
American lives were too precious to waste when we could just nuke them

The nuke didn't work until after German surrender

Japan is an island, a naval invasion against a suicidal nation would've cost millions of lives.

Ignore all these other faggots, here's your answer.

Why don't you post more pictures of the bunny loli?