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Also, to say Japanese would have died to the last man in the case of
US invasion based on the evidence of the fanatical fighting spirit
among Japanese soldiers on islands such as Iwo Jima is also
misleading. How do we know civilians would have resisted as doggedly
as the soldiers on those islands?

Because the Japanese civilians on Tinian , Saipan and Okinawa
did so preferring death to surrender. Then we testimony from
the Japanese post war that tells us that they were training
women and children to use bamboo pikes to attack Americans

Dropping nukes against people with bamboo pikes sounds rather absurd.

Good, since they were not the target.

So we are to believe Japan was so run down and desperate that it's
idea of national defense was women and children with bamboo spears?

No, they were in *addition* to everything else that the Japanese Empire
could muster in the area.