"It was a good thing for the Japanese to surrender right after the two atomic strikes delivered on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; otherwise, the US military would have gladly bombed Japan with up to 12 more nuclear strikes that would have likely wiped the entire Asian nation off the face of the earth, US media reported..."
Read the whole shabang: http://www.sputniknews.com/asia/20150816/1025806132.html
Not that being downwind mattered. Or a shared ocean. And atmosphere. And humanity.