> It's noted that it's not clear how much the atomic bombings influenced the decision to surrender, My understanding is that communications between Hirohito an

> It's noted that it's not clear how much the atomic bombings influenced the decision to surrender, My understanding is that communications between Hirohito and Stalin indicate that Japan was attempting to begin negotiation of a total surrender after Midway and that Truman's diary eludes to this moment. The main argument I've seen to contradict this is that they don't believe Japan wasn't actually going to accept a full surrender at this point.