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As a kid I remember learning that the atomic bombs contributed to Japan's surrender in WW2, but as a grown-up I also learned that Russia (a neighboring country)
by danblick 9y ago
As a kid I remember learning that the atomic bombs contributed to Japan's surrender in WW2, but as a grown-up I also learned that Russia (a neighboring country) declared war on Japan two days after the first bomb was dropped, and I wonder which made more of a difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War_(1945) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_War_(1...
The US government did a lot of things to affect the way communism was viewed in the US, so I suspect there may have been some official spin involved here.
- RugnirViking 9y agoHaving done some light reading on the topic a while ago, I recall there is evidence that of the people deciding on the peace treaty, several were not actually aware of the atomic bombings, given it was only recently learned of by the military a few hours beforehand due to damaged communication infrastructure. Its basically unknowable, lest we find some memoir of somebody who was present claiming one way or another, especially confounding is the fact that the meeting was planned before the bombings