The US was Wrong

Alperovitz believes the US is wrong based on two less devastating alternatives that he seems to think the US had at that time. The first was to clarify surrendering terms for the Japanese that would not remove their Emperor and the second was to wait for the Soviet Union to declare war. Alperovitz article leaves me highly unconvinced due to a number of assumptions he is making throughout the article. He references United States intelligence advice multiple times backing his second alternative with the idea that if the Soviets joined the war, the conflict was likely to end itself on its own. Although both "The US was Right" and "The US was Wrong" make their fair share of assumptions, it seems to me that the assumptions made in the ladder are much less convincing. Alperovitz seemed to be in the mindset that the Japanese were ready to surrender before the bombs were dropped but I find that the Japanese fight to the death mentality disproves the idea.