Which of these potential US Presidents in 1945 would have used atomic bombs against Japan?

Which of these potential US Presidents would have used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945?


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Another thing I haven't seen mentioned is that Stalin and Churchill were very aware that the US had the Atomic bomb and IOTL Truman even asked their approval/opinion if he should use it on Japan (Which essentially debunks the whole "Revisionist" theory that the US dropped the atomic to "intimidate" the Soviets"), and I can definitely see them not only be very confused if whoever occupied the white house at the time was just sitting on this knockout weapon but putting a tremendous amount of pressure on whoever was president to use it as they would be losing soldiers every day and would be getting super pissed that the US was just chilling on this weapon. (I know Stalin doesn't really care about his men in the military from a humanistic point of view but was facing man power shortages so from at least a strategic point of view doesn't want to lose a bunch more soldiers.)
 
The "atomic diplomacy" narrative was IIRC started by the Soviets themselves, specifically Molotov, and leeched into Western popular thought (as usual) through Marxist or at least far-left college academics. In this case it was Gar Alperovitz's book of the same name, published at a time when the American "counterculture" movement was in full swing and distrust of the government was arguably at the highest level since the Civil War.

Alperovitz also wrote books such as "America Beyond Capitalism" and "What Then Must We Do?" (compare with Lenin's pamphlet of a similar name) and now operates a think tank, "Democracy Collaborative," on how to bring about socialism in America. It's a wonder anyone takes him seriously. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's book "Racing the Enemy," is similar garbage and borrows a lot from Alperovitz.

(Nowadays we actually have a bizarre situation where Russian historians are pointing to Alperovitz and other "western" writers and saying "see, we were right all along!" when really they are retroactively citing Soviet propaganda. For a group of people who claimed that supposed nuclear blackmail had no psychological effect on them whatsoever the bombs sure seemed to have rattled them quite a bit, to the point where they came up with a contrived ahistorical conspiracy theory in order to conform the timeline of events to their own paranoia.)
 
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I agree that, behind the scenes, the U.S. played with the Unconditional Surrender idea, the Postsdam Declaration itself was actually a set of conditions, But a wink and a nod that "we aren't going to hang Hirohito on the Ellipse on Thanksgiving Day" is a LONG WAY from allowing them to retain large areas of territory belonging to what had been stated was a major U.S. Ally.
Was the Occupation of Japan benign? Was it a success in your opinion?
 
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