That's fine. You don't buy the opinions of the 2 generals and 1 admiral who were running things. Instead you believe the narrative built years...
You guys continue to ignore the voices of prominent military leaders at the time. None of that was needed. None would have died.
Not how I understand it.
Yes. That is all they were asking for. The US said they were going to allow even that during negotiations, then gave them the condition they...
My avatar picture answers the question.
To me, that is worthy of arrest. Don't let people like this disrupt the public.
Then why did Japan get to retain the emperor after the fact? That shows the statement invalid.
“In the light of available evidence I myself and others felt that if such a categorical statement about the retention of the dynasty had been...
“Just when the Japanese were ready to capitulate, we went ahead and introduced to the world the most devastating weapon it had ever seen and, in...
“The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb. … The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the...
“[Gen.] Arnold’s view was that the dropping of the atomic bomb was totally unnecessary. He said he knew the Japanese wanted peace. There were...
“The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before...
“[E]ven without the atomic bombing attacks, air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender...
“I concluded that even without the atomic bomb, Japan was likely to surrender in a matter of months. My own view was that Japan would capitulate...
“The Japanese were ready for peace, and they already had approached the Russians and the Swiss. And that suggestion of giving a warning of the...
“MacArthur’s views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public...
“I told [General Douglas] MacArthur of my memorandum of mid-May 1945 to Truman, that peace could be had with Japan by which our major objectives...
“[T]he Japanese were prepared to negotiate all the way from February 1945… up to and before the time the atomic bombs were dropped. … f such leads...
“In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on...
I think it depends on what the conditions are and how much more war it takes to get an unconditional surrender. There is always a difficult...