It ended WW2, saving possibly hundreds of thousands of Japanese and American lives. The "bomb" saved more Japanese lives than it took. The Japanese on the home islands were dug in and were ready to resist until the last man. The shocking effect the bomb had on the Japanese people left no question in their minds that they had been defeated. Because of this the occupation of Japan under the wisdom and command of General Douglas McCarthur was smooth and relatively short. JPM
Bomb in Japanese is 爆弾 (bakudan).
Their suicidal efforts convinced the US that the Japanese did not feel beaten and were not ready to surrender
No.The first US atomic bomb test was Trinity and the bomb itself was Gadget.The first USSR atomic bomb test was First Light.The Japanese that survived created the word pikadon to describe the effect of the atomic bomb. In Japanese pika means brilliant light and don means boom, so pikadon means brilliant lightboom. Sometimes this is translated into English as flash boom, but this does not really capture the meaning in the Japanese word. But this might be where you got the word thunderlight, however its not the same.
The atom bomb changed their lives dramatically. It wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki completely. It left an entire generation of Japanese people susceptible to the second-hand affects of radiation.
The Japanese...
Yes.
It is unlikely the Janapese would have surrendered in this scenario. The Japanese had a nuclear bomb program of their own that they had adandoned earlier in the war, so were likely as aware of the power of the device as the Americans at that time. A demonstration would have had little effect on their desire or lack of it to continue the war.
Why else would they bomb the harbour?
Hitler didn't bomb Pearl harbor, the Japanese did.
The Atomic Bomb
no