And that one condition, to not abuse the Emperor, was not unreasonable.
In fact, we did agree to it.
The condition (only asked for after both atomic bombs had already been dropped) was that Hirohito retain unlimited dictatorial power as Japan's living deity.
We did not agree to it. We told them that Hirohito would be subordinate to MacArthur.
Not wrong. Hiroshima was a huge military base.
All the military facilities had long been abandoned, in the attempt to concentrate forces for a defense.
No they hadn't. Hiroshima was the military headquarters in charge of that defense, and it held 43,000 Japanese soldiers.
There were no soldiers at Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
There were 43,000 soldiers at Hiroshima.
If there had been, we would have already bombed them, and then they would have has air defenses.
Hiroshima was off limits to conventional bombing.
But neither city had any defenses because there was no longer any valid targets there.
The headquarters in charge of repelling our invasion makes for a valid target.
So do 43,000 soldiers.
Just ask yourself WHY would Japan have wasted soldiers at Hiroshima
Hardly a waste. Most were probably awaiting deployment. The guys at headquarters were there to do their jobs.
Reality is not a lie. Japan had two million soldiers and ten thousand kamikazes waiting to pounce on our invading forces.
If Japan had any military aircraft left at all, then the atomic bombs would never have reached target.
The Nagasaki crew would like to speak to you about the Japanese aircraft that harassed them at Kokura Arsenal.
They were each delivered by a single B-29 bomber, which Japanese fighter planes could easily shoot down.
Not so easily. Antiaircraft fire from the ground was a much greater concern.
So the only possible explanation is that the Japanese simply had run out of planes entirely.
When is what the Pentagon already knew.
They knew that the total number of Japanese planes left was 109, and almost all of those were civilian.
Japan has no fuel, pilots, bullets, food, or anything.
That is incorrect. Japan had ten thousand kamikazes, and they each had a bomb and enough fuel for a single one-way flight.
So you do not even believe Bruce Campbell?
Not when he spouts falsehoods.
First of all, Japan NEVER refused to surrender.
They refused up until August 10, 1945.
Second is that only an idiot would have ever invaded Japan, as the islands made perfect prison colonies.
We were going to invade if Japan had kept refusing to surrender.
Read the Geneva conventions of 1906.
Staving out cities is a war crime.
Submarine warfare and mines that do not let civilian food through, are war crimes.
Which articles of the conventions say that?
Not wrong. Japan refused to surrender until August 10, 1945, by which time both atomic bombs had already been dropped.
The Japanese and Russians had a long history of war between them, and the last thing they would ever have thought is that Russia would at all help them.
They not only thought it, they actively pushed to get Russia to help them escape the war in a draw so they would not have to surrender.
And the Japanese NEVER tried to avoid surrender.
That is incorrect. Japan tried to avoid surrender until August 10, 1945, by which time both atomic bombs had already been dropped.
They were ready and willing as early as 1944 to surrender.
No they weren't.
But the US refused their advances.
There were no such advances to refuse.
It was the US that deliberately prevented them from being allowed to surrender.
We didn't have any control over whether Japan offered to surrender.
If we did have such control, we would have had them surrender in 1941.
Nor was Hirohito in charge.
That is incorrect. He was the Emperor.
Not nonsense. Not one person advised Truman against using the atomic bombs.
Not a single military person believed Japan had any resistance left, and they all said that we should drop the atomic bombs in order to scare the Soviets, not because Japan was still a problem.
Not one person advised Truman that Japan was not still a problem.
Not wrong. Japan was in control of when they offered to surrender.
Japan was the one who chose to wait until August 10 before ever contemplating surrender.
When we finally accepted the Japanese surrender, after Nagasaki, the Japanese still did not even know of either nuclear attack.
It took almost another week before the groups sent to investigate came back with reports.
Japan knew of Hiroshima immediately because we broadcast to the entire world that we had destroyed Hiroshima with an atomic bomb.
Japan already knew what an atomic bomb was from their own nuclear program.
Japan knew the very next day that we were telling the truth, because they had reliable reports from their own people that a single bomb had destroyed the entire city.
Wrong.
It would have taken as much as a month to even assemble a third atomic bomb, and years for any more after that.
Not wrong. The third atomic bomb was only a few days away from being dropped on Japan when they surrendered.
There were another seven atomic bombs coming over the course of September and October. Another five atomic bombs coming in November. And then at least ten a month from December onward.
And the core of Little Boy could have been recast into four implosion cores as well.
If we had agree to any sort of assurances for the Emperor, than it would have instantly been all 6 voting to surrender.
Not before the Soviets declared war.
Up until that point Japan was trying to secure Soviet aid to help them end the war in a draw instead of surrendering.
