I don't think so

The military just didn't care about civilians

Dude, firebombing would have killed more people

And decided to drop big bombs on the ebil antisemites

Have you seen the results of napalm bombs on cities?

We would have destroyes the same cities

Well, I would see the results of nukes, but there is no city to look at

Plus more

No, you don't get it

Nagasaki and Hiroshima would have been absolutely wiped out by the firebombing too!

Why do you think people and military talk constantly about the threat of nukes and not the threat of "firebombing"?

Sure thing

I'm sorry, but that just looks like the cheapest excuse one could ever make

Because nukes are fast and, in the present day, too many countries have them with too much tension, so one nuke could set off many countries nuking

"Sure, I have pretty much erased your city form Earth, but it was for the best, believe me!"

Firebombing would have killed the citizens too, and the citizens of Tokyo and other cities likely

Would you rather have 2 cities dead or 5 cities dead?

I'm going to offer a more plausible alternative:

The people in charge, like they do to this day, couldn't care less about civilians

One method was slow, typical, far less destructive.

The other was "big bomb on da chinks"

So "why not?"

9/10 would nuke again

Perhaps, but that doesn't change the fact that firebombing was devastating Japan too and massive numbers were already dying at the hands of fire bombing

One method was much more effective than the other

And I'm 99% sure that no bombing would have caused even a fraction of the damage nor consequences

You can keep thinking that

Neither of us has a PhD in WW2 history

So our opinions are likely useless

I can keep thinking that because everyone can see what a nuke does

They dropped the bomb because it was more efficient

Everyone can see what firebombing does too and look at death tolls...

Plus we nuked nips, not chinks.

They didn't surrender because of firebombing

They would have if we continued for long enough

I don't see any obliterated japanese city because of firebombing

We had already destroyed tons of their military production facilities

They knew they were going to lose already essentially

It was a matter of when

Destroying some facilities is nothign compared to what a nuke on a city of civvilians does

We firebombed the citizens too FYI