Airfried

If it was only nukes then one would’ve been enough, no? In fact we don’t know if Japanese generals even believed nukes were real when Japan surrendered. We know that some of them simply didn’t believe it, however.

Also Soviets to the North preparing a full scale invasion. Japan watched Germany being sliced up and knew it was over. Better to be ruled by one superpower than be divided by two of them.

Napoleon. Yes, it’s a little oversimplified but that man really shaped Europe and Germany with it.