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> From their point of view, it probably seemed as if the US had already won and just decided to spike the football. That wouldn't be far from the truth? If I r
by Implicated 10y ago
> From their point of view, it probably seemed as if the US had already won and just decided to spike the football.
That wouldn't be far from the truth? If I remember, and it was reported correctly, the US govt deemed the nuclear bomb to be the lesser of two evils; the other being a long drawn out deescalation due to Japanese pride.
- jbicha 10y agoYes, that's what's taught in US schools, but there's significant controversy among historians over whether the Japanese may have been about to surrender in the late summer of 1945 anyway. It's mentioned in the (rather "left") book and Showtime series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone%27s_Untold_History_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone%27s_Untold_Histor... I don't think it's a stretch at all to believe that the US did not need to drop the second bomb. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan