The right answer is "B. Japan was prolonging a terrible and bloody war that had an inevitable outcome."
Throughout the text it is notable that the US is showing that the terrible consequences that the Japan was going through was because Japan was extending the war.
This is quite clear in the passage. "also, because of their leaders' refusal to accept the declaration of surrender that would honorably honor Japan's end to this useless war, we used our atomic bomb."
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World War II began with the German invasion of Poland - this was a very famous invasion which used blitzkrieg tactics against the Polish nation and enabled Germany to successfully and quickly gain control of Poland.