Do you think WW2 would still have ended even if no atomic weapons had ever been used?

Yes, the war would have ended, but with massive casualties on both sides had the main Japanese islands been invaded.

I have seen military films of Japanese throwing themselves off cliffs (women and children) rather than surrender.

Depending upon which historian you read, the Japanese Emperor made the decision to surrender even though there was military desire for continuing (and even an attempted power grab afterward) after the destruction of the atomic bombs. Some say it was the declaration of war from the USSR, which had been neutral up to that point, that was the tipping point.

The use of atomic bombs is still so controversial. But at the time, we would have bombed the Japanese islands with all possible armaments anyway, had they not surrendered. It would have decimated the Japanese population, and not just soldiers, but the entire population.

As late as 1997, a Japanese soldier who had never surrendered was found living in the Philippines.

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The war would have eventually ended, but could have continued for several more years before the Japanese would be forced to surrender. The atomic bomb hastened the end of the war and saved many, many lives. The atomic bomb gave the Japanese leaders an excuse to surrender without 'losing face' because obviously no one could combat a weapon so terrible and so powerful. Without that, Japan would have fought to the last man, woman and child.

The Atomic bombs,Fat Bot and Little Man were powerful weapons.but it was not until the U.S.S.R.declared war on Japan in mid August 1945 were the Japanese military even considering a surrender.The Russians had a score to settle after losing the 1904-05 Sino-Russo war in in which Japan's Navy put a serious beat down on the Czar's Imperial Asiatic Fleet. No young one war's don't just happen .they build up over time like a pot of water on the stove until blammo it boils over.The Japanese Forces were prepared to go on for as long as it took,but 5 Star General Mac Arthur talked some sense into them.Mac wasn't concerned for the military he cared for the civilians.Look at the pic of the surrender on the USS Missouri he is officer's day uniform and all others are in tuxedo's or full dress gear.

Yes the 2WW could have been ended with the invasion of Japan, but it would have cost the lives of literally millions of American servicemen. Japan's avowed intent was to kill an American for every foot of Japanese soil gained by the US. Every man woman and child was considered as a soldier by the Japanese military, and children were trained in the use of sharpened bamboo spears with which to kill US soldiers. The use of the atomic bomb - although it killed a million Japanese, saved the lives of two million US soldiers and many millions of Japanese. It would taken up two three years to completely subdue Japan. The War would have gone on until at least August 1948. In fact, although two bombs were dropped, the Japanese had no way of knowing that those were the only two bombs that America had. If they had known, they would not have surrendered.

The Japanese were too proud to just give-up and surrender. They were given many many opportunities to surrender before any bomb was dropped. Eventually the war would have probably ended but not after a more drawn-out process and more loss of lives. It took the Japanese a little more than a week to surrender after the 2nd bomb was dropped, which should tell you something.

It would have ended without, Japan was starving from allied blockades, an invasion would not have been necessary. It doesn't matter how loyal its people were, people need to eat. However it is possible more Japanese people would have died from starvation than the bombs. Though the bombs ended the war faster, and prevented the Soviets from invading Japan, this would have been successful but would have cause a large civilian death toll.

Yes.

The US Navy (especially the Submarines) had a complete blockade on the Japanese & had airbases that allowed the Airforce to bomb Japan at will. It would have collapsed in time without the 'bloody invasion' the US sometimes imagined - not unreasonably in 1945, however the Japanese were in denial & the bomb did shorten the war with a smaller amount of casualties for both US & Japanese. It's worth remembering the 100,000 Japanese deaths caused by ONE night of bombing over Tokyo, conventional bombing was the alternative to the bomb & puts 'Bomber' Harris's Dresden in to sharp contrast.

It was the defense of Iwo Jima that convinced the Unites States to use the bombs. Japan was training children and old women to fight to the death, much less the remainder of their army on the home islands. The bloodbath would have been staggering if we had had to invade and fight conventionally, but Japan had clearly lost the war already.

Don't let latter-day post-Sixties revisionism blind you to the simple fact that in war a nation must clearly define who the enemy is and then proceed to kill as many of them as possible until they quit fighting and surrender without condition. Any other solution is a compromise, and leads to interminable conflicts such as we have seen in all the wars fought since. To use the most effective weapon available, coupled with the political will to actually force capitulation instead of settling for a "negotiated settlement" actually saves lives in the long run by settling the question once and for all.

No, the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria and seizure of Kurile Islands, Korea, and parts of Mongolia would have ended the war in a matter of a month or two.

The Soviet Union invaded with over 1.6 million troops and easily encircled and captured over 600,000 Japanese troops. The Japanese troops surrendered en masse with relatively little fanfare.

So much for the Bushido code of honor and death before surrender creed perpetuated in the media.

The projected 1 million American casualties resulting from a US campaign to invade Japan is a convenient speculation used to justify the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in terms of moral equivalence.

By the time the Hiroshima bomb was dropped the war in europe had already ended. World war Two would have eventually ended up in an allied victory, the americans just dropped the Hiroshima bomb to prove a point really.