I don't know what your question has to do with Pearl Harbor. After all, the attack on Pearl was an attack, albeit unprovoked, on a military installation. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the fire-bombing of Tokyo, were deliberate attacks on largely civilian populations.
The main thing is that once we had a nuclear weapon, there was really no question that we would use it. The idea of continuing to fight the Japanese without using the nukes is largely an academic discussion that post-dates the war.
It's often overlooked that the firebombing of Tokyo killed more people than either of the A-bombs. Had the Japanese not surrendered after Nagasaki, we probably would have fire-bombed all the remaining cities into oblivion, because we had used up our entire stock of nuclear weapons. It's hard to say whether or not an invasion would have been required; if it had my father would have been part of it and might not have survived. He ended up being part of the occupation force in Japan and ended up as member of McArthur's "Honor Guard".
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