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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 260.77+0.2%Dec 24 12:59 PM EST
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To: Math Junkie who wrote (65675)9/10/2002 2:02:22 PM
From: Jerome  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
OT***Japanese Surrender***

From what I have read about the final days in Japan. Two weeks before the bomb drop on Hiroshima The Japanese military sent some diplomatic messages to the Russians (in expectation that they would be forwarded to the US) concerning a surrender. The Russians never forwarded the messages because they coveted some Japanese islands, and if the War ended too quickly there was no way Russia could take these islands.

When the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the Japanese military could not verify the destruction to the Emperor, because they did not have gasoline to drive from Tokyo to Nagasaki. They also lacked a geiger counter to verify that it was a nuclear explosion. (some in the military thought that the damage was caused by a series of explosions) Eight hours after the bombing of Nagasaki the American Military dropped a long silver cylinder (by parachute) into the destroyed area. Instructions inside the cylinder told the military to find a Japanese professor of Physics that had studied in the US to verify that this was a nuclear explosion.

A lot has been written about the final days of the Japanese Empire. Check your local library for some interesting reading.

Jerome
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