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I think it's more complicated than that. There were at least some people who were not planning to surrender. If it was up to me, I would have probably dropped
by Latteland 8y ago
I think it's more complicated than that. There were at least some people who were not planning to surrender. If it was up to me, I would have probably dropped it on a mostly uninhabited island near Japan. It's probably true we wanted to scare the Russians with our new super weapon.
But the big question is if Japan was close to surrendering anyway is why didn't Japan surrender after the first one, why did it take a second one?
- baddox 8y agoErnest Lawrence, who worked on the Manhattan Project (and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the cyclotron), famously recommended a non-lethal demonstration of the bombs: > At the May 31 meeting, Lawrence suggested that a demonstration of the atomic bomb might possibly convince the Japanese to surrender. This was rejected, however, out of fear that the bomb might be a dud, that the Japanese might put American prisoners of war in the area, or that they might manage to shoot down the plane. The shock value of the new weapon could also be lost. https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1945/debate.htm https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Event...