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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (497731)	8/28/2022 2:40:01 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 542147

What was different? Partly the shock and awe, partly the lack of fuel, partly Truman letting the emperor continue as emperor, general battle fatigue in the armed forces and the general population, the depleted navy, etc.. We'll never know for sure the quantitative composition of the motive. It's not like we can duplicate it in a controlled experiment.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (497731)	8/28/2022 6:07:57 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 542147

et Japan surrendered a month after the atomic bombs, not one month after the much worse Tokyo fire bombs. What was different? The soviets declared war on Japan, two days after the bomb, with the intention of carving it up like Germany.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (497731)	8/29/2022 9:06:28 AM
From: Tom Daly	1 Recommendation Recommended By koan Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542147

I was in Tokyo once and while walking around I looked up and tried to imagine what it was like to see all those bombers overhead, see the bombs falling, watch everything erupting in flames and trying to survive the firestorm. It was hard to wrap my head around the reality of what it must of been like. I did the same thing once in London, imagining the Nazi bombers attacking London during the Blitz, and it was easier to get a sense of what it must have been like but not in Tokyo. The magnitude of the horror is almost incomprehensible.