Owsi68
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- May 22, 2016
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The deck of the USS Missouri was where the instrument of surrender was signed. The Arizona was and still is underwater.. The main thing is that it got Japan aboard the Arizona to surrender, and that says it all.I always thought it was about ending the war with Japan while sending a message to the USSR that basically said, "Don't fuck with America."
Japan
Statistics justified the use of an atom bomb over invasion with conventional weapons - more would die on both sides if we had invaded.vs nuked them.
USSR
They were posturing a lot and war with them was a possibility. I thought the hidden message we were sending by dropping a 2nd bomb was to essentially prove to the USSR that we had more than one and we're not afraid to use them.
There was some doubt as to whether or not America really had the bomb, that the bomb worked, that we had more than one bomb, and that we had the will to drop the bomb.
The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki answered all of these questions.