Nuclear War or Invasion: The False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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> In a 1960 interview, Bard reiterated that "the Japanese were ready for peace and had already approached the Russians" about capitulating.
> General Dwight D. Eisenhower, later said that "the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing."
> "Japan was already defeated and dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary," President Eisenhower wrote in 1954.
> The same morning that Nagasaki was destroyed, Prime Minister Kintaro Suzuki addressed the Japanese cabinet, declaring that "under the present circumstances I have concluded that our only alternative is to accept the Potsdam Proclamation and terminate the war." Suzuki did not learn about Nagasaki until the afternoon of August 9.
The allies who surrendered to Japan in Batan and elsewhere were treated as inhuman -- "surrender" was the ultimate shame -- there was no honor is surrender. It wasn't until after the bombing of Nagasaki and the news of Soviet attacks in Manchuria, the complete and destruction of numerous other Japanese cities, and potential mass starvation that surrender came. They were more fearful of being occupied by the Soviets, than surrendering to the Americans.
America has her sins, but she is not the monster the revisionists make her out to be.
Were you hoping I wouldn't check the dates? Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th, Nagasaki on the 9th, and Japan surrendered on the 15th. It took them 6 days after the 2nd bomb (and Soviet declaration of war) to surrender, but the 2nd bomb dropped 3 days after the 1st. Diplomacy takes time. If the US had dropped 10 nukes in 3 days, would you have said "Japan did not surrender after the 9th nuke - clearly the 10th was warranted"?
And nothing you wrote disproves that the Soviet declaration of war alone would have been enough for surrender, while the whole article is full of accounts indicating unconditional surrender was at hand (let alone conditional surrender). Just saying "nu-uh" won't make the article go away.
Not to mention the bombs could easily have been delayed by a week to check.
Concerning the bombing of Hiroshima I'll quote an excerpt from https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japan-surrenders
After the Hiroshima attack, a faction of Japan’s supreme war council favored acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, but the majority resisted unconditional surrender. On August 8, Japan’s desperate situation took another turn for the worse when the USSR declared war against Japan. The next day, Soviet forces attacked in Manchuria, rapidly overwhelming Japanese positions there, and a second U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese coastal city of Nagasaki.