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Originally Posted by ranxer
3 Japan was ready to end the war before we dropped the bomb on a non-military target. damn.
4 the morning of the day we dropped the second bomb japan had said ok we'll sign unconditional surrender.. we dropped it anyway. the folks that dropped the bomb for us should have been hanged for massive warcrimes. oh well so much for keeping the bomb out of the hands of psychos.
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"After the first nuclear bomb was dropped, the Japanese government
held a cabinet meeting in which they summoned Nishina, head of the
atomic program, and asked him if he could duplicate atomic weapons
within a few months.
After two nuclear weapons had been dropped on Japan, the cabinet concluded
that Japan faced utter destruction with nuclear weapons, and some advocated
surrender. But according to emperor Hirohito
"At the time of the surrender, there was no prospect of agreement"
Even with two nuclear weapons, surrender was far from assured. It was touch
and go: Had the coup succeeded, Japan would not have surrendered, and
a considerably more nuclear bombing would have been necessary. The bullet
holes in the imperial palace testify that even after two nuclear bombs,
there was a substantial faction of the government determined not to surrender.
It was certainly true that Japan was defeated, and reasonable people may
disagree on justice of using nuclear weapons under these circumstances,
but
to claim, as Alperovitz claims, that Japan was on the verge of surrender,
is not a mere difference of opinion on the interpretation of the facts, but
a simple, crude, barefaced, blatant lie."
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