EMTALA

Applies to Americans, coming from someone who works in a hospital

To be fair, the bucket is a very important item, And you can always do the good thing and give it back later.

Are you kidding? Not to say we didn’t exactly have that luxury in 1945, but we didn’t.

We had enough uranium and plutonium for the 3 bombs, and that was it. Our bluff was that we would keep doing it. And the nuke hadn’t been displayed before that point either, so what good is a threat when it hasn’t been shown before? We did exactly that and they didn’t care.

And remind me the estimated casualty counts of operation downfall, along with the civilian casualties and damage. Not to mention a North Japan and South Japan like germany.

You won’t. But consider a pragmatic view and not an idealistic view, so be it if you need a show of force for an enemy who refuses to surrender and would rather destroy themselves and all who would try to make them yield utterly and totally.