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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax
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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (692)7/4/2002 7:58:52 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (4) of 3467
 
OT: Decision to Bomb Hiroshima

Noel,

I've done some reading on the matter. One of the most important determinants of the choice to use the bombs in August, 1945 was the imminent entry of the USSR into the war against Japan. U.S. diplomatic interests did not want to face a negotiation with Russia over dividing the spoils.

In the weeks prior to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, several overtures for conditional surrender were being circulated by the Japanese diplomatic corps. They did not have the acquiescence of the Emperor for full unconditional surrender at the time, but the U.S. diplomatic corps and military were fully aware that the Japanese war effort was at a point of exhaustion. There is no indication from the record that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were determinative of the ending of hostilities. Merely that their use accelerated the end of the war and improved the U.S. negotiating position.

-Ray
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