Literally the exact quote of the historian in the article you're linking: "Any myths about this history you want to debunk or set the record straight on?" "Th

Literally the exact quote of the historian in the article you're linking: "Any myths about this history you want to debunk or set the record straight on?" "The big one was that the Japanese were ready to surrender and would have surrendered even if we had not dropped those bombs. I think that is a myth. Oppenheimer seems to have believed that the weapon was used against a country that was about to surrender—as he puts it, essentially defeated. The Japanese were essentially defeated—that’s true. Their fleet had been sunk and their cities had been burned. But they were not ready to surrender." "Did the bombs lead to the Japanese surrender on Sep. 2?" "Two atomic bombs forced them to. The dominant reason [the U.S.] used the bomb was to end the war. [The U.S.] thought the only way to end the war was to use these two terrible weapons."